In Love (New York Review Books Classics)

ISBN: 1590176669

Author: Hayes, Alfred

Condition: New

This heart-stoppingly good masterpiece about a crumbling love affair in 1950s New York perfectly captures the desperate desire for love and the recognition that it is slipping away (Slate).One of the greatest, bleakest breakup stories ever told. - The New York ObserverNew York in the 1950s. A man on a barstool is telling a story about a woman he met in a bar, early married and soon divorced, her child farmed out to her parents, good-looking, if a little past her prime. Theyd gone out, theyd grown close, but as far as he was concerned it didnt add up to much. He was a busy man.Then one day, out dancing, she runs into a rich awkward lovelorn businessman. Hell pay for her to be his, pay her a lot. And now the narrator discovers that he is as much in love with her as she is with him, perhaps more, though it will take him a while to realize just how utterly lost he is.Executed with the cool smoky brilliance of a classic Miles Davis track, In Love is an unequaled exploration of the tethered-and untethered-heart.