title: The Angel's Share
author: Wagner, Thomas
description: 'The Angel's Share' is an epic, transcendental love story!
  Miranda and Ferdinand discover themselves in one another in their romantic quest.  Their journey takes them from their chance meeting on the island of Illyria, to their fateful stranding on a deserted island they call Navarre.
  Playing off of many of Shakespeare's themes and literary motifs, 'The Angel's Share' is a revelation of the meaning of love and of life.  Miranda blossoms as an individual through her newly found love for Ferdinand-himself an heroic figure who unifies all of nature's forces through his open mind and expansive intellect.
  Seeking after The Prince of Hoosisberg, the two take a global journey of self discovery, and of the very transformation of civilization.  Their travels are accompanied by global cuisine and wines, discussions on art and philosophy with a range of characters assembled from the vast gallery of The Great Bard of Avon.
  Poetry, classical music, and sweeping botanical gardens surround their amorous relationship which is full with intimacy and hot sex: in the solitude of the pink and black sands of Illyria, to 'The Nest'-a tree house overhanging Apparitions Lake at Dean Cloten's lodge, to an inglenook in the cabin on Lake Schlaas.
  Sweeping in format, epic in narrative, grandiose and grandiloquent, 'The Angel's Share' paints vivid images on the open canvass of the mind, opening vast landscapes of mountains and big sky, of the immensity of inner nature revealed in brushstrokes bold and colorful.
  Told by both lead characters, 'The Angel's Share' opens with He Said-Ferdinand, with the second half of the novel told by the entries into Miranda's diary.  It is either two novels in one, or one novel told two ways.  Stylistic and suave, it is a novel that will touch the deepest center of your being with its challenging concepts and rarefied romanticism!
  Laugh out loud funny throughout, 'The Angel's Share' concentrates on all aspects of human nature, of human sexuality and sensibility, of the origin of everything from nothing, of all eternity in each moment.
  Boldly original, 'The Angel's Share' is a timeless classic, a contemporary great American novel.  The reader is taken to places no other novel has even imagined, let alone attempted to enter.  An true original story unfolds through deft literary motifs that include the highest experiences of life, love, and the treasure of culinary conquest with a continuous sound track composed of classical and electronica.
  It is a song sung without a care.
  It is 'The Angel's Share'!