Feast of Love

English

ISBN: 0375410198

EAN: 9780375410192

Category: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)/Fiction / Romance / Contemporary/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 04/01/2000

Synopsis: 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 Nights 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 womens 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Awards: National Book Awards – null  Original Voices Award – null 

Feast of Love

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.14 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 19.93 oz

Pages: 320