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The Feast of Love

The Feast of Love

Baxter, Charles

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

HumorRomanceLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 037570910X
ISBN13: 9780375709104
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 1 2001
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
National Book Award Finalist - A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from one of our most gifted writers (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award

A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom. --The Washington Post

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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