Description
For a romantic, it's life's ultimate question: What is This Thing Called Love? Actor and novelist Gene Wilder explores twelve possible answers in this emotionally involving book about different kinds of love: star-crossed, intense, needy, eternal, unrequited and even comical. With delicacy of feeling and a simple style that adds to the power of his fiction, Wilder creates memorable lovers and silly suitors, unexpected attraction and careful courting. What is This Thing Called Love? is for anyone who has ever yearned for a deep connection, made a study of love, and spent their life trying to find the real thing.
A lighthearted reminder of love's potential (requited, even unrequited) to make a life worthwhile.--Los Angeles TimesAuthor: Gene Wilder
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 04/26/2011
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780312672799
ISBN10: 0312672799
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 21st Century
About the Author
Gene Wilder (1933-2016) began acting when he was thirteen and writing for the screen since the early 1970s. After a small role in Bonnie and Clyde pulled him away from a career onstage, he was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role as Leo Bloom in The Producers, which led to Blazing Saddles and then to another Academy nomination, this time for writing Young Frankenstein. Wilder has appeared in twenty-five feature films and a number of stage productions. His first book, about his own life, was Kiss Me Like A Stranger, and was followed by the novels My French Whore, The Woman Who Wouldn't, What Is This Thing Called Love? and Something to Remember You By.
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