The Feast of Love - Hardcover

Baxter, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375410198 ISBN 13: 9780375410192

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Charles Baxter

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A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people

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From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.

The Feast of Love is just that--a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us.  In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones.

In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection, while she remembers the women's softball game during which she was stricken by the beauty of the shortstop. A young couple spends hours at the coffee shop fueling the idea of their fierce love. A professor of philosophy, stopping by for a cup of coffee, makes a valiant attempt to explain what he knows to be the inexplicable workings of the human heart.

Their voices resonate with each other--disparate people joined by the meanderings of love--and come together in a tapestry that depicts the most irresistible arena of life. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, The Feast of Love is a masterful novel.

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375410198
• ISBN 13: 9780375410192
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308