Published: January 4, 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author: David Levithan
Pages: 211
Genres: Romance, Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary
A modern love story told through a series of dictionary-style entries is a sequence of intimate windows into the large and small events that shape the course of a romantic relationship.
How does one talk about love? Is it even possible to describe something at once utterly mundane and wholly transcendent, that has the power to consume our lives completely, while making us feel part of something infinitely larger than ourselves?
How does one talk about love? Is it even possible to describe something at once utterly mundane and wholly transcendent, that has the power to consume our lives completely, while making us feel part of something infinitely larger than ourselves?
"The Lover's Dictionary is told in the way as it sounds - it's essentially in a dictionary format and the uniqueness come from the fact that the story is told within each of the word's definitions.
Even if you didn't necessarily know what a word meant in the beginning, you get the entire picture within the snippets of story that were told.
