In Love (New York Review Books Classics)
by:
Alfred Hayes (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781590176665 (1590176669)
ASIN: 1590176669
Publish date: 2013-07-23
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Pages no: 130
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Fiction
People are pretty terrible. Through their actions, upbringing, or decisions, sometimes they can be terribly unkind. Other times, their insecurities break down their relationships and in the process proves to be some fairly good reading if in novel form. The unnamed narrator of In Love is relating th...
I don't even know how to go about reviewing this book, well, I do, but I'm no wordsmith so I'll muck it all up. Here goes anyway!I'm 26, or about to be, and I've never been in love and I don't believe I ever will be. Hazards of being a scoially inept hermit after all. I've never had such a connectio...
This is a wrenching book -- which is a high compliment. It's an unsparing examination of a doomed love affair in post-WWII New York, from the perspective of a 40-year old man who is looking back on what he has lost, not with sentimentality, but with all the difficult emotions we have difficulty admi...
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