{"product_id":"the-pure-lover-a-memoir-of-grief-9780807006207","title":"The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A wrenching and boldly intimate lament.\"--Philip Roth \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Pure Lover\u003c\/i\u003e leaves one exalted. . . . A lovely book, joyful, plangent and true.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Plante first met Nikos Stangos in London in 1965. He was a young American--raw, an aspiring writer, in love with a fantasy of Greece half classical and half inspired with the eroticism of Cavafy. Nikos was Greek, a poet, an aesthete and intellectual, a leftist, a survivor of the Nazi occupation of his country: a man of great sophistication and few pretensions. Nikos was pure. They spent the next forty years together. And then Nikos died of brain cancer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Pure Lover\u003c\/i\u003e Plante tells us, in vivid fragments that like the pieces of a mosaic come together into a glimmering whole, the story of his beloved, of their life together, and of its end. And in this telling he shows us the nature of grief: its passion, its centrality, its vanity, its willfulness, the threat and the lure of its overwhelming force. And the griever's fear that when it fades, the lost lover will finally, really, be lost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pure Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of unusual intimacy, a lament that will speak to all who have known deep love and deep grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807006207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.42w x 0.39d","brand":"David Plante","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181262401717,"sku":"9780807006207","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1d85ad8e-9945-4387-b7c4-0e84fb2e524c.jpg?v=1768922406","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-pure-lover-a-memoir-of-grief-9780807006207","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}