The Feast of Love - A Novel (Paperback, 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Release date:	May 2001
First published:	May 2001
Authors:	Charles Baxter
Dimensions:	204 x 133 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	308
Edition:	1st Vintage Contemporaries ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-70910-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-375-70910-X
Barcode:	9780375709104

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