Isbn: 9798189951749 - the kiss you have to earn: what i meant to say (4 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A love story, told entirely in the messages that built it.Before it was a marriage, it was hundreds of small emails - Spanish vocabulary lists slipped between jokes, homework complaints, Sunday phone calls, and running jokes about semicolons that never quite die. Katharine and Owen collects the day-to-day correspondence of two people falling in love in real time: a night-shift factory worker finishing his English degree, and a grad student teaching him Spanish one verb at a time in exchange for a kiss.What begins as playful teasing over toilet-seat trivia and bad first dates deepens, message by message, into something steadier - study dates that turn into study dates, a slow unspooling of college memories and old boyfriends, a shared taste for Calvin and Hobbes and bad puns, and eventually the quiet, unglamorous work of sitting beside someone through a parent's cancer diagnosis. Along the way there are homemade parody news articles, a hand-drawn piano lesson for "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," a lost telescope, a stolen dog toy crisis, and a running tally of who owes whom a kiss for good Spanish.Presented as a found document - unfiltered, undated, and unpolished - this is correspondence as it actually happens: repetitive, funny, tender, and real. There's no narrator standing between you and the two people writing it. You just get to read over their shoulders.For readers of epistolary fiction This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …