Dimensions
129 x 198 x 18mm
A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.
In this latter-day 'Midsummer Nights 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 womens 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 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. Shortlisted for the National Book Award 2000.
