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Flamingo, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/Poor. jacket is rubbed, damp and chipped. both book and jacket have been damaged at the rear bottom edge. tanning, soiling and marks. poor copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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THE PAST ISN'T fixed if it isn't dead.
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- Title The Romantic
- Author Barbara Gowdy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 384
- Publisher Flamingo, United Kingdom
- Date May 19, 2003
- ISBN 9780007156276
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Flamingo, Great Britain, 2003. Hardcover. Good Condition. How do you love someone who sits, smiling, at the edge of oblivion? Award-winning Canadian writer Barbara Gowdy unravels a romance, and the idea of romance, in this spry, witty, agile novel full of all the species of love. Louise Kirk falls in love. She's 10, lives in a cosy, unremarkable suburban home, but, remarkably, has lost a mother already. Or, rather, her chic, sharp mother has disappeared. So, Louise, lonely and steeped in complicated yearnings, decides to fall in love. Furiously. First, she falls in love with her magnificent new neighbour, the operatic and exotic Mrs Richter. Then, within the year, she falls for Mrs Richter's brilliant son Abel. Distracting him from his attentive study of everything around him -- the constellations, the moths, the music -- proves quite a struggle. But before long Abel finds he loves Louise 'too much'. A dozen years later, Abel is gone and Louise is devastated. This is the…
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