ADVERBS: A Provocative Literary Drama Exploring the Troublesome Glory of Love - Softcover

Handler, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007181280 ISBN 13: 9780007181285

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2007

Synopsis

A dramatic meditation on love both fleeting and everlasting, ‘Adverbs’ is a serious work of fiction by one of today's most innovative voices, and famed author of the Lemony Snicket series.

‘Adverbs’ marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult fiction as he tackles life's most complicated and compelling noun: love. In a series of intersecting narratives that explore variations of that ineffable feeling, Handler crafts a moving and shifting story exploring the frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions.

Two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent's first homosexual stirrings for his sister's boyfriend; a doomed, enormously inappropriate tryst between a taxi driver and his passenger; a high-school crush that falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen. Handler's characters experience love in all of its dark, triumphant, devastating and sneaky forms. In ‘Adverbs’, Daniel Handler reveals to us how the most universal of themes is also the most unknown.

'Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner. We breathed it in, particularly me.'

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Handler is the author of the best-selling ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ (under the pen name of Lemony Snicket), a collection of books for children. He has also written various screenplays, and three books for adults: ‘Basic Eight’, ‘Watch Your Mouth’, ‘How to Dress for Every Occasion, by the Pope’ and ‘Adverbs’. He lives in San Francisco.

From the Back Cover

Hello. I am Daniel Handler, author of this book.

Did you know that authors often write the summaries of their books that
appear here? You might want to think that the next time you read something
like, "A dazzling page-turner, this novel shows an internationally
acclaimed storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers."

Adverbs is a novel about love - a bunch of different people, in and out of
different kinds of love. An adolescent's first stirrings for his sister's
boyfriend; a doomed, inappropriate tryst between a taxi driver and his
passenger; a high-school crush that falls painfully short of a movie
projected on a screen.

A dazzling page-turner, this novel shows an internationally acclaimed
storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007181280
• ISBN 13: 9780007181285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288