| Laura Contributor(s): Watson, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671567764 ISBN-13: 9780671567767 Publisher: Atria Books OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2001 Annotation: The prize-winning and bestselling author of "Montana 1948" now renders a novel of faith, obsession, and enduring love about a young boy's fascination with his father's poet mistress. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.2" W x 8.93" (0.96 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a captivating departure, Larry Watson, a writer whose work is worthy of prizes (Los Angeles Times Book Review), unveils a portrait of faith, obsession, and enduring love -- and a work of greater tenderness than anything he has yet written. Laura Love captures Paul Finley, in, of all places, his own bedroom -- literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter; Paul is smitten. When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: Forget me. Laying bare the inner life of one man during the course of nearly four decades, Larry Watson delivers a riveting treatise on the excruciating power of love -- and two of the most remarkable characters in recent American literature. Infused with breathtaking pathos and delicate grace, Laura is an extraordinary triumph of the novelist's art. |