Adverbs: A Novel - Hardcover

Handler, Daniel

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Adverbs

marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult fictionas he tackles life's most complicated and compelling noun: love. In a seriesof intersecting narratives, Handler crafts a moving and shifting story exploringthe frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions.

Two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent's firsthomosexual stirrings for his sister's boyfriend; a doomed, enormouslyinappropriate tryst between a taxi driver and his passenger; a high school crushthat falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen: Handler'scharacters experience love in all of its dark, triumphant, devastating andsneaky forms. InAdverbs, Daniel Handler reveals to us how the mostuniversal of themes is also the most unknown.

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About the Author

Daniel Handler has written three novels under his own name, including The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, and Adverbs, and many books under the name Lemony Snicket, including All the Wrong Questions, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the picture book 13 Words.

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