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The Book of Love
Roger Rosenblatt
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Description for The Book of Love
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: VFV; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love. In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations-romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak, fury, confusion, melancholy, delirium, ecstasy; love of family, of friends; love of home, of country, of work, of writing, of solitude, of art; love of nature; love of life itself. Rosenblatt is on a quest to illuminate this elusive and essential emotion, to define this thing called love. Cleverly using lines from love songs to ... Read more
The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love. In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations-romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak, fury, confusion, melancholy, delirium, ecstasy; love of family, of friends; love of home, of country, of work, of writing, of solitude, of art; love of nature; love of life itself. Rosenblatt is on a quest to illuminate this elusive and essential emotion, to define this thing called love. Cleverly using lines from love songs to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062349439
SKU
V9780062349439
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Roger Rosenblatt
Roger Rosenblatt is the author of six off-Broadway plays and eighteen books, including Lapham Rising, Making Toast, Kayak Morning and The Boy Detective. He is the recipient of the 2015 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.
Reviews for The Book of Love
While plenty of writers have tried their hand at capturing the improvisational brilliance of jazz, with varying degrees of success, Rosenblatt's wanderings with the subject of love are like Coltrane at the Village Vanguard. When you hear it, you know."
Kirkus Reviews "[This book] could probably be read in one sitting, but it's too clever, and it dashes here ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews "[This book] could probably be read in one sitting, but it's too clever, and it dashes here ... Read more