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Author:	Charles Baxter	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Vintage Books	ISBN-10:	037570910X
ISBN-13:	9780375709104	Subject:	Drama
Publication Year:	2001	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Good

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Synopsis
The plot of Baxter's novel consists of scandalous tales supposedly told to the author by his neighbors--all of whom seem to be involved in sexual imbroglios that intertwine and enrich each other in the telling. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
Size
Length:	308 pages
Height:	7.8 in.
Width:	5.0 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	8.8 oz.

Publisher's Note
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.
Industry reviews
"Baxter shows equal felicity with male and female characters, making this evenhandedness look so natural that you forget how few writers are similarly skilled....In THE FEAST OF LOVE, Charles Baxter shows us the hard-won generosity of spirit that day-to-day dealings with other human beings require. He builds a community right on the page before us, using a glittering eye, a silvery tongue--and just a little moonlight." Carey "...Baxter has a talent for making us aware of things--like love and despair--that we may not know about. His pictures are graceful, tough and strikingly even-handed." Curwen "Baxter's novel is a modern Symposium, unexpectedly hilarious in its attempt to get at the evasive truths of love; unlike Plato's treatise, though, its strength lies in its recognition that such truths aren't universal." New Yorker (07/17/2000)

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