The Venice Apartment and Other Stories

About the Book

In The Venice Apartment and Other Stories, a painter, a singer and a student read the soul level of a distant self, other people and times in music, art, and architecture centuries old. A mother and son break with their past, held in the vial of an ancient amulet, and broken figures, long dead, leave the memory of loss and desire in old places of residence, where new occupants and travelers passing through learn lessons about power, possession and freedom. Love, death and art are intimately bound up together in this collection of metaphysical love stories that capture the elusive element in relationships and in the creative lives of artists and truth-seekers.

About the Author

Erna Cooper was born and raised in Southern California. She studied fine art and theatre at New York University, holds a B.A. in English Literature, from UCLA, and has produced theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in Scotland. Erna is a member of the Société des Autuers et Compositeurs Dramatiques, as well as a member of the Lester McNutt Theatre Company, in Paris. Additionally, Erna holds graduate degrees in European Literature, English and Modern Languages, from Oxford University, where she was awarded 'proxime accessit' for the Rex Warner Literary Prize, at Wadham College.