{"product_id":"a-man-in-love-9781628728736","title":"A Man in Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Colm Toibin's \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e and Michael Cunningham's \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, a witty, moving, tender novel of impossible love and the mysterious ways of art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is so famous his servant auctions off snippets of his hair and children and adults recite from his many works by memory. When he was a young poet, his first novel, a story of love and romantic fervor ending in suicide, was an international blockbuster that set off a wave of self-inflicted deaths across Europe. Now seventy-three, sought after and busy with scientific pursuits and responsibilities to the Grand Duke, he has fallen in love with a nineteen-year-old, Ulrike von Levetzov. Infatuated, at the spa in Marienbad, he seeks her out. They exchange glances, witty words. In the social swirl, they find each other. On the promenade, they parade together arm in arm. Time spent away from her is sleepless, and when they kiss, it is in the \"Goethian\" way, from his books: a matter of souls, not mouths or lips. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And yet, his years fail him. At an afternoon tea party, a younger man tries to seduce her. At a costume ball, he collapses. When he proposes nonetheless, Ulrike and her mother are already preparing to leave. Caught in a storm of emotion and torn between despair and unwillingness to give up hope, he begins an elegy in his coach as he pursues her: \"The Marienbad Elegy,\" one of his last great works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628728736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Martin Walser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44683432263861,"sku":"9781628728736","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_43e9458b-e9aa-4921-bba2-1b7e6fce30fc.jpg?v=1727795859","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-man-in-love-9781628728736","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}