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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

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    A Paperback / softback by Charles Baxter

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/2001
      ISBN13: 9780375709104, 978-0375709104
      ISBN10: 037570910X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

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