Love May Fail

Love May Fail Matthew Quick


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Love May Fail





An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodnessand her high school English teacherin New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quicks offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal

Quick celebrates the power of ordinary, flawed human beings to rescue themselves and each other. His writing is shot through with wit and humanity and an ultimately optimistic view of people, without ever becoming sentimental. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project

Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Lost and alone, looking to find the goodness in the world she believes still exists, Portia sets off to save herself by saving someone elsea beloved high school English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident.

Will a sassy nun, an ex-heroin addict, a metal-head little boy, and her hoarder mother help or hurt her chances on this madcap quest to restore a good mans reputation and find renewed hope in the human race? Love May Fail is a story of the great highs and lows of existence: the heartache and daring choices it takes to become the person you know (deep down) you are meant to be.

Drama / Ficção / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance

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Em geral eu gosto muito dos livros do Matthew Quick. Nem tanto pelos plots, mas a escrita dele sempre me cativa. É fluida, sagaz, sempre bem ritimada. Mas Love May Fail é, disparado, o pior livro dele que eu já li até hoje. É um livro sobre uma crise de meia idade, com vários personagens passando por crises existenciais e, no final, se reencontrando apesar de não muita coisa espetacular acontecer. Eu ODIEI a personagem principal, Portia Kane. Que mulherzinha insuportável. Mimada, eg... leia mais

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