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Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common, but in the wake of their father's death they find themselves in a new interlude: a period of desire, despair, and the possibility of finding out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking . . .
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, but especially love, Intermezzo is an understated study of characters caught circling the margin of something great and unknown that carefully considers social and philosophical issues.
"Intermezzo is Rooney's most fully realized work, especially as she channels the modernist styles of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf." -- Publisher's Weekly