num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Feast of Love
titlecomplete: The Feast of Love
genres: Romance, Love, Literary Fiction, Book Club, Contemporary, Short Stories, Adult, Novels, Fiction, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 9402
places: Ann Arbor, Michigan
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Fourth Estate