The Feast of Love: A Novel
 

The Feast of Love: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Charles Baxter

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... (read more)

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Pamela O
  • Rated 5 stars

This is one of my all-time favorites; I think I've read it five or six times. Charles Baxter's ability to write from the point(s) of view of so many different characters, of both genders, is unique and so believable I didn't even think about that until the second time I read this novel. I really enjoyed the way the stories unfolded and blended together, and it still tickles me that a love story could be so endearing without ever being trite or sentimental.

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Rach
  • Rated 1 stars

I've never tried so hard to get through a book without quitting. The only story that was half way interesting was that of Chloe, and I hated how even though the book was a compilation of stories from a bunch of different people, they all sound like they were narrated by the same person. Although sometimes the characters called for the tone of an older man with a big vocabulary, it wasn't necessary for many of the characters, especially the teenage women.

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