{"product_id":"the-pure-lover-a-memoir-of-grief-paperback","title":"The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Plante\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A wrenching and boldly intimate lament.\"--Philip Roth \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pure Lover\u003c\/i\u003e leaves one exalted. . . . A lovely book, joyful, plangent and true.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Plante first met Nikos Stangos in London in 1965. He was a young American--raw, an aspiring writer, in love with a fantasy of Greece half classical and half inspired with the eroticism of Cavafy. Nikos was Greek, a poet, an aesthete and intellectual, a leftist, a survivor of the Nazi occupation of his country: a man of great sophistication and few pretensions. Nikos was pure. They spent the next forty years together. And then Nikos died of brain cancer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Pure Lover\u003c\/i\u003e Plante tells us, in vivid fragments that like the pieces of a mosaic come together into a glimmering whole, the story of his beloved, of their life together, and of its end. And in this telling he shows us the nature of grief: its passion, its centrality, its vanity, its willfulness, the threat and the lure of its overwhelming force. And the griever's fear that when it fades, the lost lover will finally, really, be lost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pure Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of unusual intimacy, a lament that will speak to all who have known deep love and deep grief.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Plante\u003c\/b\u003e has published more than a dozen novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Family, The Woods, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Country, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the nonfiction books \u003ci\u003eDifficult Women \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ghosts.\u003c\/i\u003e His work has appeared in many periodicals, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eParis Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand has been nominated for a National Book Award. \u003ci\u003eThe Pure Lover \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Randy Shilts Publishing Triangle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.4 x 5.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52868750803168,"sku":"9780807006207","price":17.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/BTr0ugplBC9780807006207.webp?v=1781278609","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pure-lover-a-memoir-of-grief-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}