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The History of Love
Hardcover, 252 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $23.95 | purchase
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Book Summary
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl, named for one of the book's characters, seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. By the author of Man Walks Into a Room. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.
Genres:
This book is about:
- Lost literature,
- Authors,
- Poland,
- Immigrants,
- Loss (Psychology),
- Books and reading,
- Love stories,
- Psychological fiction,
- Fiction
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