Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Lover's Dictionary


by David Levithan, 211 p.

corrode, v.

I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open, and it started to rust.

-The Lover's Dictionary

David Levithan's beautiful novel explores the love of two people. Written in dictionary form, Levithan tells their story with words like rubberneck, aloof, banal. Best of all, he knows the characters. This is one of those books where you feel everything the characters feel, as if he's writing about your own love life.

poignant, adj.

The Lover's Dictionary.

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