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The Feast of Love

Charles Baxter

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	The Feast of Love
Author	:	Charles Baxter
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2001 by Vintage (first published April 25th 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Romance

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The Feast of Love is a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined A 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.

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Original Title:	The Feast of Love
ISBN:	037570910X (ISBN13: 9780375709104)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ann Arbor, Michigan(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2000), Premi Llibreter de narrativa (2002)

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Back when I first started on Facebook, author Jonathan Carroll posted this as a great book for a weekend read. 5 - 6 years later, I finally got to it. I love Carroll and I can absolutely see why he liked it. This is a story about various loves and relationships - Baxter is more of a short story writer, and you can kind of tell. These seemed like very connected short stories, but it totally worked as a novel. In the early chapters it is suggested that in every relationship there is a perfect day,

Abandoning on pg 100 -- read like labored creative writing. Unbelievable. Mannered syntax. Dull. Vaguely interesting structurally. The occasional nice observation. But then there'd be a line like "We were swoon machines." Ugh. Incites hatred in me. The Jewish professor's inverted syntax? Double ugh. Goes firmly in the "too many books, not enough time to bother with this sort of BS" category. I'll need to read some Bernhard now to recover from this.

A series of vignettes centering about love and relationships, as suggested by the title. Love in all its forms: young, passionate, true love; feisty acts of manipulation and deception; familial love corrupted by drink, perversion and mental illness, turning the feelings into bitterness and hate; new-found, unexpected love after failed relationships; a new family and love created out of loss and loneliness. The characters are drawn in sketches, some likable (Bradley, Chloe, Oscar, the Ginsbergs),

A seemingly disoriented post-midnight walk through several lives and loves. People clumsily come together, and come apart, shifting narrators and tones--all thick with the theme of love (and loss) in its' many, many forms. I loved this books and had a hard time putting it down, literally. (Which rarely happens to me.) At times, however, I was worried it was too cute a novel, given the occasional all-too-precious line, but before my skepticism could fully take hold, Baxter quickly won me back

A dear friend told me about this book several years ago. I bought it, like I always do, and there it sat on my shelf for years - waiting to be read. When asked for a book club suggestion, I gazed at my shelf and it screamed at me "pick me! pick me!" So, it won the suggestion and became the early January pick for book club. It was beautiful. Well written, heartfelt, and just an overall good read. It was a terrific portrayal of how, despite our good intentions, some things just don't work out the

Someone, or something I read, caused me to pick up this book several years ago at a used-books sale, because its synopsis is not one that would normally have tempted me into buying it, but whatever that something was, I have no recollection of it any longer. And it can't be the "A Midsummer Night's Dream" references as that isn't even one of my favorite Shakespeare plays.I can tell Baxter is a smart man (his character of Harry proves that) and also a very good writer from the writing in the

Charles Baxter - image from Sycamore Review This a delicious novel. Structurally it is a sort of extended spokes on a wheel. The central character is Bradley. We learn of his relationship history, and of people connected with him. A young couple, who outwardly seem very punky are in fact the most traditional. We see his relationship with a very harsh, intense woman who marries him almost for a lark and who then dumps him to return to her boyfriend. In another relationship his first wife leaves