The Feast of Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375709104)

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.

Author: Charles Baxter
ISBN-10: 037570910X
ISBN-13: 9780375709104
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.25w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/13/2001 pg. 28