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A meditation on humanity’s most powerful emotion. The Book of Love by Roger Rosenblatt — the bestselling author of Making Toast and Kayak Morning — is a 2015 series of improvisations: short, lyrical essays that riff on love the way a jazz musician riffs on a theme, interspersed with vignettes of lovers and notes to the author’s wife of fifty years.
Rosenblatt brings wit, erudition, and a lifetime of observation to love in all its moods — romantic love, courtship, marriage, heartbreak, fury, melancholy, ecstasy; love of family, of friends, of home. He embraces love’s contradictions rather than resolving them.
Warm, funny, and quietly profound — a book to dip into and return to. The honest, humane wisdom of a writer who has spent decades paying attention: a thoughtful gift for weddings, anniversaries, or Rosenblatt doesn’t offer formulas — just the honest, humane wisdom of decades spent paying attention. anyone reflecting on what matters most.
“The Book of Love: Improvisations on a Crazy Little Thing” by Roger Rosenblatt is a 2015 meditation on humanity’s most powerful emotion, written as a series of improvisations — short, lyrical essays that riff on love the way a jazz musician riffs on a theme, interspersed with vignettes of lovers and notes to the author’s wife of fifty years.
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nRosenblatt, the New York Times bestselling author of Making Toast and Kayak Morning, brings wit, erudition, and a lifetime of observation to love in all its moods — romantic love, courtship, marriage, heartbreak, fury, melancholy, ecstasy; love of family, of friends, of home. He embraces love’s contradictions rather than resolving them.
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nWarm, funny, and quietly profound, The Book of Love is a book to dip into and return to — a thoughtful gift for weddings, anniversaries, or anyone reflecting on what matters most. Rosenblatt doesn’t offer formulas — just the honest, humane wisdom of a writer who has spent decades paying attention.
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