{"product_id":"9780375709104","title":"The Feast of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award Finalist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"one of our most gifted writers\" \u003ci\u003e(Chicago Tribune),\u003c\/i\u003e here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Feast of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is just that — a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined \u003ci\u003eMidsummer Night's Dream,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Supurb.... A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024988029168,"sku":"9780375709104","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375709104_p0.jpg?v=1763691518","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375709104","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}