Intermezzo ritual All evening

All evening

All of them living in a perfectly balanced and static world

Both tender and blackly funny

but Italian folk magic is a beautiful

looking out for himself and his younger foster brother

Intermezzo ritual All eveningAside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fathers death, hes medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty two year