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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication date
May 1, 2001
Pages
308
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375709104
ISBN-10
037570910X
Dimensions
0.50 by 5 by 7.75 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$15.95
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
In the Lake of the Woods | There's Something I Want You to Do | Gryphon | Jesus' Son | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | Burning Down the House | Goodbye, Columbus | First Light | The Art of Subtext
In the Lake of the Woods | There's Something I Want You to Do | Gryphon | Jesus' Son | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | Burning Down the House | Goodbye, Columbus | First Light | The Art of Subtext
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people. By the author of Believers and Harmony of the World. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: National Book Award Finalist
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.
"Supurb.... A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." -- The Washington Post Book World
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.
"Supurb.... A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." -- The Washington Post Book World
Editions
Hardcover
from Pantheon Books (April 1, 2000)
9780375410192 | details & prices | 308 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $24.00
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people
Paperback
Reissue edition from Vintage Books (August 14, 2007)
9780307387271 | details & prices | 308 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $14.95
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people.
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Vintage Books (May 1, 2001)
9780375709104 | details & prices | 308 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.95
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people.
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people.
CD/Spoken Word
With Scott Brick (other contributor), Amanda Karr (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Phoenix Books Inc (September 1, 2007)
9781597771443 | details & prices | 6.25 × 5.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $29.95
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people.
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people.
With Scott Brick (other contributor), Amanda Karr (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from New Millenium Audio (January 1, 2004)
9781590075036 | details & prices | 5.50 × 4.75 × 2.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $49.95
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people.
About: A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Scott Brick (other contributor), Amanda Karr (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from New Millenium Audio (December 1, 2003)
9781590075029 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.00 × 2.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $29.95
About: A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.
About: A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.
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