Max Hawthorne has brought up his son, David, alone. Together they have refined the art of intimate friction. Separately they court Ashland Eichman in ways neither of them would wish the other to know. What part of her life, of herself, does she choose to reveal to each of them? What does each man, separated by twenty-six years of experience, choose to see? In Love Parts, Julian Davies writes wtih elegance and compassion about contrasts and connections - about life and stories; the domestic and the mysterious; violence, love and obsession...