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Synopsis
"Brilliant . . . A tale that is as gripping as any Everest expedition--and that is also tender and terrifying and funny and, in the end, so true it seems inevitable . . . I'm not sure there's another American writing today who can lay down a love story, or any story, with the depth and appeal and freshness of Bill Roorbach." --Peter Heller, author of "The Dog Stars" and "The Painter" When the "Storm of the Century" threatens western Maine, Eric closes his law office early and heads to the grocery store. In line ahead of him, an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman comes up short on cash, so Eric offers her twenty bucks and a ride home. Trouble is, Danielle doesn't really have a home. She's squatting in a cabin deep in the woods: no electricity, no plumbing, no heat. She'll need food, water, and firewood just to get her through the storm, and there's a whole long winter ahead. Fending off her violent mistrust of him, he gets her set up, departs with relief, and climbs back to the road, but--winds howling, snow mounting--he finds his car missing, phone inside. In desperation, he returns to the cabin. And as the storm intensifies, these two lost souls are forced to ride it out together."The Remedy for Love" is an intensely moving, frequently funny story about the truths we reveal when there is no time or space for artifice. "A superbly grown-up love story . . . Another expertly delivered portrait of the world from Roorbach, that poet of hopeless tangles." --"Kirkus Reviews, " starred "One of the best novels of this or any year . . . A flat-out funny, sexy, and poignant romantic thriller." --David Abrams, author of "Fobbit"
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Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, October 2014: Roorbach’s previous book, Life Among Giants, was an Amazon Best of the Month “spotlight” pick and one of my favorites of 2012. In The Remedy for Love, he again creates believably damaged, oddball characters: a buttoned-up, cuckolded small-town stud (Eric), and a bruised, half-starved mystery girl (Danielle). Eric is a lawyer. He does pro bono work. He’s separated from his wife. Danielle is... well, we’re not sure who she is. She looks homeless, but we soon catch glimpses of her “retractable beauty, like a cat’s claws.” Eric feels responsible for her somehow—“a moral tug.” So after buying her groceries, and carrying them to her cabin in the woods, Eric returns to the cabin as a snowstorm begins to shut the roads and blanket the town white. In no time, the two are locked inside as the snow piles higher. Cynical readers may need to make a leap of faith here. (I found myself once asking, “Really?”) Even Danielle seems freaked out by Eric’s irrational helpfulness. “Get the f**k out!” she screams at him. “You’re so nicey-nice, you f**king creeper.” The story then finds its theatrical groove, with crackling, smart dialogue that made me think Taylor-Burton in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? (“I like when you call me Eric.” “Then I’ll stop.”) Within the chilled and claustrophobic confines of the cabin, as Danielle’s mysteries unfold and the storm outside rages, you think you know where things are headed, but how Roorbach gets us there is unexpected, sexy, and intense. Edgy and quite moving, the story stuck with me for many days. –Neal Thompson
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"A flat-out funny, sexy, and poignant romantic thriller."* "One of the best novels of this or any year." --*David Abrams, author of "Fobbit" "A superbly grown-up love story . . . Another expertly delivered portrait of the world from Roorbach, that poet of hopeless tangles." --"Kirkus Reviews, " starred, named to "Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of 2014 ""The Remedy for Love" is not the remedy for sleep deprivation. You'll stay up all night . . . I'm not sure there's another American writing today who can lay down a love story, or any story, with the depth and appeal and freshness of Bill Roorbach." --Peter Heller, author of "The Dog Stars" and "The Painter" Praise for "Life Among Giants" "A bighearted, big-boned story . . . "Life Among Giants" reads like something written by a kinder, gentler John Irving . . . Roorbach is a humane and entertaining storyteller with a smooth, graceful style." --"The Washington Post" "Hilarious and heartbreaking, wild and wise, Bill Roorbach's" Life Among Giants, " which is earning comparisons to "The World According to Garp, " is a vivid chronicle of a life lived large." --"Parade" "Consistently surprising and truly entertaining . . . Part thriller, part family drama, "Life Among Giants" is deliciously strange and deeply affecting." --"The Boston Globe" "A dizzy romp . . . Alive, electric and surprisingly dangerous." --"The New York Times Book Review"
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1410477703
- ISBN 13 9781410477705
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages407
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