This was a truly marvelous book. I'm not sure what Kirkus Reviews was thinking. The comparisons to Tom Robbins were accurate, but Tom Robbins comes off as cynical and jaded where Nightingale is truly a man in love with everything: words, stories, food, spirits, nature, lovemaking, and love itself. This book is, in a word, delicious. I urge anyone who likes to be rolled up in a blanket of sensations to read this. I will be reading it aloud in bed for many years.
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