{"product_id":"the-feast-of-love-9780375709104","title":"The Feast of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award Finalist - A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, f\u003cb\u003erom \"one of our most gifted writers\" \u003ci\u003e(Chicago Tribune)\u003c\/i\u003e and the winner of the PEN\/Malamud Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom.\" --The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Feast of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is just that--a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined \u003ci\u003eMidsummer Night's Dream, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Baxter is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the National Book Award), \u003ci\u003eThe Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFirst Light, \u003c\/i\u003e and the story collections \u003ci\u003eGryphon, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBelievers, A Relative Stranger, Through the Safety Net, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarmony of the World\u003c\/i\u003e. The stories \"Bravery\" and \"Charity,\" which appear in \u003ci\u003eThere's Something I Want You to Do, \u003c\/i\u003e were included in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872569233682,"sku":"9780375709104","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ef36cae-cb46-448f-8153-c55c80ff6e5b.jpg?v=1737902038","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-feast-of-love-9780375709104","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}