num_pages: 272
description: Would you rather love the more and suffer the more; or love the less and suffer the less? That is I think finally the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences but Paul doesnt know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen hes proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.As he grows older the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.Tender and profound The Only Story is an achingly beautiful novel by one of fictions greatest mappers of the human heart.
language: English
title: The Only Story
publisher: Vintage Digital