{"product_id":"the-feast-of-love-by-charles-baxter","title":"The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter","description":"\u003cp\u003eA superb 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. Shortlisted for the National Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this latter-day ‘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.\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 fuelling 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. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, ‘The Feast of Love’ is a masterful novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43794972180554,"sku":"5027w","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5027w.jpg?v=1783570420","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-feast-of-love-by-charles-baxter","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}