The Remedy for Love: A Novel - Hardcover

Roorbach, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1616203315 ISBN 13: 9781616203313

Verlag: Algonquin Books, 2014

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FINALIST FOR THE 2014 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION

“A flat-out funny, sexy, and poignant romantic thriller.”*

They’re calling for the “Storm of the Century,” and in western Maine, that means something. So Eric closes his law office early and heads to the grocery store. But when an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman in line comes up short on cash, a kind of old-school charity takes hold of his heart—twenty bucks and a ride home; that’s the least he can do.

Trouble is, Danielle doesn’t really have a home. She’s squatting in a cabin deep in the woods: no electricity, no plumbing, no heat. Eric, with troubles—and secrets—of his own, tries to walk away but finds he can’t. She’ll need food, water, and firewood, and that’s just to get her through the storm: there’s a whole long winter ahead.

Resigned to help, fending off her violent mistrust of him, he gets her set up, departs with relief, and climbs back to the road, but—winds howling, snow mounting—he finds his car missing, phone inside. In desperation, he returns to the cabin. Danielle’s terrified, then merely enraged. And as the storm intensifies, these two lost souls are forced to ride it out together.

Intensely moving, frequently funny, The Remedy for Love is a harrowing story about the truths we reveal when there is no time or space for artifice.

“One of the best novels of this or any year.” —*David Abrams, author of Fobbit

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Bill Roorbach is the author of ten books, including the Montana Award-winning Lucky Turtle, The Girl of the Lake, the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love, the bestselling Life Among Giants, and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection Big Bend. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book, Writing Life Stories, has been in print for over twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic,The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Ecotone, New York magazine, The American Scholar, and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.

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“A flat-out funny, sexy, and poignant romantic thriller.”*

“One of the best novels of this or any year.” —*David Abrams, author of Fobbit

“A superbly grown-up love story . . . Another expertly delivered portrait of the world from Roorbach, that poet of  hopeless tangles.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred, named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2014

“The Remedy for Love is not the remedy for sleep deprivation.  You’ll stay up all night . . . I’m not sure there’s another American writing today who can lay down a love story, or any story, with the depth and appeal and freshness of Bill Roorbach.”  —Peter Heller, author of The Dog Stars and The Painter

Praise for Life Among Giants

“A bighearted, big-boned story . . . Life Among Giants reads like something written by a kinder, gentler John Irving . . . Roorbach is a humane and entertaining storyteller with a smooth, graceful style.” —The Washington Post

“Hilarious and heartbreaking, wild and wise, Bill Roorbach’s Life Among Giants, which is earning comparisons to The World According to Garp, is a vivid
chronicle of a life lived large.” —Parade

“Consistently surprising and truly entertaining . . . Part thriller, part family drama, Life Among Giants is deliciously strange and deeply affecting.”  —The Boston Globe

“A dizzy romp . . . Alive, electric and surprisingly dangerous.”   —The New York Times Book Review

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1616203315
• ISBN 13: 9781616203313
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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