by Baxter (Author)
A superb 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. Shortlisted for the National Book Award. In this latter-day '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 fuelling 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. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, 'The Feast of Love' is a masterful novel.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Film tie-in e.
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 04 Oct 2010
ISBN 10: 1841156388
ISBN 13: 9781841156385
`Rich, strange, alive with the miracles of daily life, this novel is a banquet for the soul. So many wonderful characters, all of whom I came to cherish ... Truly, this is a novel in which the unexpected is always upon us.' Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and The Voyage of the Narwhal
'Superb. A near-perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom. He has created a world no very different from one of those panoramic town scenes of Bruegel or Stanley Spencer - each character fully realised yet part of the larger whole - that one does not so much look at as step into, and from which one emerges a little transformed.' Washington Post
'A spectacular novel that serves up everything its title promises.' New York Post
`A well plotted, deeply humane kaleidoscope of lives.' Time Out
`This novel can cure insomnia, easing the self-recriminatory worries that cause sleepless nights; it might even briefly reconcile the reader to life.' TLS
Charles Baxter teaches at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of seven other works of fiction, including `Believers', `Harmony of the World', and `Through the Safety Net'.
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