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Knopf
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Featuring: Adam
501 pages
ISBN: 0307377423
EAN: 9780307377425
Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Pearl and Final
Payments comes a beautifully choreographed novel about
first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years and
reimmersing themselves in their shared past.
Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now
in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in
Rome, a city where they once spent a summer deeply in love,
living together blissfully. At an awkward reunion, the
two—who parted in an atmosphere of passionate betrayal in
the 1960s and haven’t seen each other since—are surprised to
discover that they may have something to talk about. Both
have their own guilt, their sense of who betrayed whom, and
their long-held interpretation of the events that caused
them not to marry and to split apart into the lives they’ve
led since—both are married to others, with grown children.
For the few weeks they are in Rome, Adam suggests that they
meet for daily walks and get to know each other again.
Gradually, as they take in the pleasures of the city and the
drama of its streets, they discover not only what matters to
them now but also more about what happened to them long
ago.
Miranda and Adam are masterfully portrayed
characters, intent upon understanding who they are in
relation to who they were. A story about what first love
means and how it is shattered, and the lessons old lovers
may still have to share with each other many years later,
The Love of My Youth is also a poignant look back at
the hopes and dreams of a generation and what became of them.
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