Love Is War

By George Stade

Book Overview

"The most striking and pleasurable feature of this very pleasurable book is the confident lilt of the voice--the prose sings itself and even has several refrains where the reader can hum along. But it's not only lyrical--it's also violently physical, sexy and--well, read it You're in for an unusual treat."--Rachel Hadas

A daring comic novel, full of subversive energy and scathing observations about love, literature, sex, and murder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885586477
• ISBN13: 9781885586476
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A delight

In an era when novels usually deliver sex, cruelty, and violence in blunt and brutal prose, it's a pleasure to read this fluent, allusive, witty, and thoroughly enjoyable prose about sex, cruelty, and violence. George Stade blends a realistically low estimate of human aspirations with an energizing enthusiasm for enjoying them, and it's impossible not to enjoy them along with him.