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The Romantic

Barbara Gowdy
3.63/5 (1411 ratings)
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"Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only - and incorrectly - "Louise knows how to work the washing machine."

Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion to the exotic, motherly Mrs. Richter is quickly transferred to her nature-loving, precociously intelligent son." From this childhood friendship evolves a love that will bind Louise and Abel for the rest of their lives. Though Abel moves away, Louise's attachment becomes ever more fixed as she grows up.

Separations are followed by reunions, but with every turn of their fractured relationship, Louise discovers that she cannot get Abel to love her as fiercely and exclusively as she loves him.


Only when Louise comes face to face with another great loss is she finally forced to confront the costs of abandoning herself to another.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
372 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Edition:
P.S. Edition
Language:
en-US
ISBN10:
0007156286
ISBN13:
9780007156283
kindle Asin:
B009OZN7Z2

The Romantic

Barbara Gowdy
3.63/5 (1411 ratings)
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"Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only - and incorrectly - "Louise knows how to work the washing machine."

Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion to the exotic, motherly Mrs. Richter is quickly transferred to her nature-loving, precociously intelligent son." From this childhood friendship evolves a love that will bind Louise and Abel for the rest of their lives. Though Abel moves away, Louise's attachment becomes ever more fixed as she grows up.

Separations are followed by reunions, but with every turn of their fractured relationship, Louise discovers that she cannot get Abel to love her as fiercely and exclusively as she loves him.


Only when Louise comes face to face with another great loss is she finally forced to confront the costs of abandoning herself to another.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
372 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Edition:
P.S. Edition
Language:
en-US
ISBN10:
0007156286
ISBN13:
9780007156283
kindle Asin:
B009OZN7Z2

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