Adverbs

Daniel Handler Aka Lemony Snicket

ISBN 10: 0007181272 / ISBN 13: 9780007181278

Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2006

About this Item

A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper, Signed and dated (3 VI 2006) on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 008609

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adverbs
• Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007181272
• ISBN 13: 9780007181278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Fiction

About this title

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.

‘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 the Author

Daniel Handler is the alter ego of Lemony Snicket, author of the ‘Series of Unfortunate Events’ books. Handler's two novels are ‘The Basic Eight’ and ‘Watch Your Mouth’. He also performed accordion and keyboards on the Magnetic Fields ambitious and critically acclaimed ‘69 Love Songs’. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife and child.