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The Feast of Love

"The Feast of Love is just that--a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined 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. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, The Feast of Love is a masterful novel."--Publisher.

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  • "Feast of love"
  • "Feast of Love"
  • "Ai qing sheng yan / Charles Baxter zhu ; Zhang Juanfen yi"
  • "Aiqing shengyan"

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  • ""The Feast of Love is just that--a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined 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. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, The Feast of Love is a masterful novel."--Publisher."@en
  • "A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people."
  • "A variety of characters tell their tales of love and loss and redemption."@en
  • "The warm, reassuring gravitas of Morgan Freeman anchors Feast of Love, a multi-character meditation on the mysteries of that oh-so-powerful emotion. Bradley (Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine), owner of a coffee shop in Oregon, thinks his marriage is idyllic--until his wife (Selma Blair, Hellboy) leaves him for another woman. One of Bradley's baristas (Toby Hemingway, The Covenant) falls head over heels for a girl who comes looking for a job (Alexa Davalos, The Chronicles of Riddick), but his abusive father (Fred Ward, Miami Blues) spells trouble for the relationship. Finally, a professor (Freeman) and his wife (Jane Alexander, Kramer vs. Kramer) struggle to find purpose in life in the aftermath of a personal tragedy. Though some scenes are a bit precious and the dialogue leans too much on semi-philosophical pronouncements, viewers will find it hard not to identify with the universal trials of romance and the yearning for a family. Also starring Radha Mitchell (High Art, Pitch Black) as a real estate broker who can't stop seeing a married man. Warning: Feast of Love is predominantly about the ways of the heart, it features several fairly explicit sex scenes. Directed by Robert Benton (Places in the Heart, Nobody's Fool)."
  • "In vignettes both comic and sexy, men and women speak of and desire the ideal mates who may be hiding in the unmapped sphere of possibilities in Ann Arbor, Michigan."@en
  • "From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined 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. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, The Feast of Love is a masterful novel.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Fest der Liebe Roman"
  • "The Feast Of Love"
  • "El Festín del amor"
  • "El Festí de l'amor"@ca
  • "爱情盛宴 = Aiqing shengyan"
  • "The feast of love : a novel"
  • "爱情盛宴 = The feast of love"
  • "Ai qing sheng yan"
  • "<&gt"
  • "Ai qing cheng yan = Aiqing shengyan"
  • "Festin d'amour"
  • "Ai qing sheng yan = The feast of love"
  • "Fest der Liebe : Roman"
  • "愛情盛宴 = The feast of love"
  • "The FEAST OF LOVE"
  • "愛情盛宴"
  • "爱情盛宴"
  • "Het festijn van de liefde"
  • "El festí de l'amor"
  • "The Feast of Love"@en
  • "El festín del amor"@es
  • "The feast of love"
  • "The feast of love"@en
  • "Nazwij to ucztą miłości"@pl
  • "Feast of love"
  • "Nazwij to ucztą miłości"

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