Book - BookDetective

Name: The Republic of Love

Author: Carol Shields
Year: 1992
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
Fiction, Romance, Contemporary

Purchase/reserch links:

LibraryThing

Goodreads

Amazon

ISBNs:
9781480459861
1480459860

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times.

Can Fay believe in lasting love with such a man? Will romantic love conquer all rational expectations? Only Carol Shields could describe so adroitly this couple who fall in love as thoroughly and satisfyingly as any Victorian couple and the modern complications that beset them in this touching and ironic book.