The Feast of Love - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Charles Baxter (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In vignettes both comic and sexy, men and women speak of and desire the ideal mates who may be hiding in the unmapped sphere of possibilities in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>National Book Award Finalist - A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, f<b>rom one of our most gifted writers <i>(Chicago Tribune)</i> and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award</b> </b> <p/> <b>A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom. --The Washington Post</b> <p/><i>The Feast of Love</i> is just that--a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined <i>Midsummer Night's Dream, </i> 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. <p/> 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, <i>The Feast of Love</i> is a masterful novel.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Superb--a near-perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom."-<i>The</i> <i>Washington Post Book World</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Charles Baxter is the author of the novels <i>The Feast of Love</i> (nominated for the National Book Award), <i>The Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, </i> and <i>First Light, </i> and the story collections <i>Gryphon, </i> <i>Believers, A Relative Stranger, Through the Safety Net, </i> and <i>Harmony of the World</i>. The stories "Bravery" and "Charity," which appear in <i>There's Something I Want You to Do, </i> were included in <i>Best American Short Stories.</i> He has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.</p>
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