Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0385676174
- ISBN-13
- 9780385676175
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-16
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Author
- David Rakoff
Description
From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century. David Rakoff, who died in 2012 at the age of 47, built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel, written with humour, sympathy and tenderness, proves him the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
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