This Is a Love Story

Description

This Is a Love Story
by Jessica Soffer

ISBN: 9780593851265
Hardcover, new

Brief Description:
An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the
sacrifices we make for both For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming
to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted
parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone
when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had
something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a
century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life
together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their
courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives—and the parts
they didn’t always want to know—the determined young student of Abe’s
looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his
mother chose art over parenthood and who has avoided love and intimacy at
all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with
Central Park itself, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as
complicated and essential as love itself. An homage to New York City, to
romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully
captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about
love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because
of it.