{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62342478594435,"sku":"9780375709104","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780375709104.jpg?v=1786181077","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-feast-of-love-9780375709104","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}