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The History of Love: A Novel Hardcover - 2005
by Krauss, Nicole
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- very good
- Hardcover
Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.
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Details
- Title The History of Love: A Novel
- Author Krauss, Nicole
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 2005-05-16
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # FH-AD-vg-125031
- ISBN 9780393060348 / 0393060349
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.38 x 1.02 in (24.13 x 16.21 x 2.59 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005000936
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE
A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son, and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book... Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill, and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty."
"Vertiginously exciting." --New York Times
"At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious." --Washington Post
"Krauss writers like an angel." --Guardian
"One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away." --Spectator
"It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith" --Ali Smith
"It's the sort of book that makes life bearable after all." --Miami Herald
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America's most important novelists." She is the author of the international bestseller Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Man Walks Into a Room. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.
A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son, and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book... Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill, and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty."
"Vertiginously exciting." --New York Times
"At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious." --Washington Post
"Krauss writers like an angel." --Guardian
"One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away." --Spectator
"It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith" --Ali Smith
"It's the sort of book that makes life bearable after all." --Miami Herald
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America's most important novelists." She is the author of the international bestseller Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Man Walks Into a Room. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/15/2005, Page 1265
- Booksense '76 May 2005, 05/01/2005, Page 1
- Entertainment Weekly, 04/29/2005, Page 152
- Ingram Advance, 05/01/2005, Page 36
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2005, Page 191
- Library Journal, 04/15/2005, Page 74
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/15/2005, Page 74
- New York Review of Books, 06/23/2005, Page 49
- New York Times, 05/01/2005, Page 19
- People Weekly, 05/16/2005, Page 59
- Publishers Weekly, 02/21/2005, Page 154
- Romantic Times, 05/01/2005, Page 95
- Vanity Fair, 05/01/2005, Page 94
