| The Feast of Love Contributor(s): Baxter, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 037570910X ISBN-13: 9780375709104 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99053088 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.25" W x 8.03" (0.57 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Michigan |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |