Monday, July 23, 2007

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

A unique, creative, outstanding book. It's a first person, serial protagonist novel. This technique is the same as William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying". Slightly different here, since there is a narrator, who is writing a novel, and who appears at the beginning and end only. Every other chapter alternates between the other characters, in first person, as they each tell parts of the story.

The title explains it all. The novel examines the love lives of the characters. Not everything goes smoothly, just like real life. It is excellently written, imaginative, and a real pleasure to read.

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