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All from different walks of life, but all with their own love story. But the point is to describe different ways of loving, and Baxter does that very well. Besides, I’m not in the novel all that much. Oh, and WHAT is this National Book Award that made this book a finalist? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A friend recommended this book to me and after reading the blurb, I didn't hesitate to buy this book. You get to choose among money, fame, or love. I have been dreaming about reading the book, which is also like living inside the book. You have to be careful which door you open. She’s a somewhat unsympathetic character, but I wanted readers to be interested in her, even a little sympathetic to her, despite all her sharp edges.Q: Is she a part of you?A: Anybody is a part of anybody, if you listen, if you invite them into your psyche.Q: The Feast of Love has been described as A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in Ann Arbor. The story is very well crafted. Clear rating. The characters are drawn in sketches, some likable (Bradley, Chloe, Oscar, the Ginsbergs), some awful (Diana, David, the Bat). Alcoholism plays a greater role in his stories. There's a problem loading this menu right now. I like the sound of people talking. That’s useful in a character. Mannered syntax. It's terribly disappointing and somewhat insulting. Amazing! Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, The Feast of Love is a masterful novel.“Supurb…. I’ve been married for twenty-five years, and I drive a four-door sedan around town, and try to pay the bills on time. After reading it for the first time, I've found myself returning to it again and again, turning to favorite pieces, or simply reading it from cover to cover, on long, rainy, lonely weekends. I can't quite articulate what about it I love so much. A lot of the images in the novel, such as the dragon, reappear to resonate with the novel's themes. She wasn’t that much more real to me than any of the other characters, but Chloé has the advantage of being young, sexy, and slangier, more open and colloquial. I heard voices coming from someone’s house, and I thought of that line from Shakespeare, "the night air is full of voices,"and I thought: I’ll write a novel with voices, a sort of Midsummer Night’s Dream in which people are paired off with the wrong partners at first, and then are paired off with the right partners later, and everyone will tell their stories to Charlie, who will be this shadowy listener, like the reader. Uh, no. Food that is familiar, yet delicious and can help get your spirits up each time you turn to it. I have been dreaming about the characters. Charles Baxter steps into his quirky novel as an insomniac whose nightly meanderings around his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, lead him to sit down on a bench next to fellow insomniac Bradley Smith and his dog, also named Bradley. Love stories that try to stay at the level of pure excitement turn into a form of pornography. And I am not just talking about the two youth characters. Please try again. Each chapter in this book is a vignette that sketches each character's love life through their own voice. It's the kind of novel that makes you step out of your everyday-world, forget all that's on your mind and live through the characters inhabiting the book. My book advertises itself as a novel, right on the title page, and there’s one of those disclaimers about all the characters being fictitious, and any coincidence between them and real people living or dead being coincidental, etc. Refresh and try again. . I was just outside Windsor, Ontario, near the customs booth, when she said that. Baxter is well awarded and I assumed this would be great. The stories “Bravery” and “Charity,” which appear in There’s Something I Want You to Do, were included in Best American Short Stories. There are so many other great books out there that you can read instead of this one. I will read a chapter that uses votive candles as a reality and as a metaphor and I will close the book and o. And I am not just talking about the two youth characters. They’re on the prowl for love, all of them, their voices raised.Q: Why do you think up characters like this? In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner o We work hard to protect your security and privacy. 'The Feast of Love' is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. The character of 'Bat' was so creepy and monstrous, yet there was sympathy for him because despite his creepiness and inability to have normal relationships, he's also human and wants love and happiness just like normal people.

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