num_pages: 115
description: From the incomparable David Rakoff a poignant beautiful witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century.David Rakoff who died in 2012 at the age of 47 built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel written with humour sympathy and tenderness proves him the master of an altogether different art form.Love Dishonor Marry Die; Cherish Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff a Canadian who became an American citizen sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff magnificent a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
language: English
title: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
publisher: Doubleday