Aaron's review
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Charles Baxter wakes up in the middle of the night and decides to take a stroll around the neighborhood. He makes his way to the local football stadium where he spies a young couple making love on the fifty yard line. So begins The Feast of Love.
Mr. Baxter's old friend Bradley is at the heart of this novel, a kaleidoscope of converging stories and characters. Bradley has been married twice. Once to Kathryn (who leaves him for a woman), and once to Diana (who leaves him for David, the married man whose wife just left him). There's Esther and Harry, Bradley's elderly neighbors, academics despondent over the disappearance of their mentally-ill son. And there's Chloe and Oscar, the young cashiers in Bradley's coffee shop, who are young and in love and unable to comprehend just how difficult life can be. In alternating chapters, each of these characters confess to sins, admit their failings, and eventually, they begin to intersect in unexpected ways. To tell you more would ruin t...more
Mr. Baxter's old friend Bradley is at the heart of this novel, a kaleidoscope of converging stories and characters. Bradley has been married twice. Once to Kathryn (who leaves him for a woman), and once to Diana (who leaves him for David, the married man whose wife just left him). There's Esther and Harry, Bradley's elderly neighbors, academics despondent over the disappearance of their mentally-ill son. And there's Chloe and Oscar, the young cashiers in Bradley's coffee shop, who are young and in love and unable to comprehend just how difficult life can be. In alternating chapters, each of these characters confess to sins, admit their failings, and eventually, they begin to intersect in unexpected ways. To tell you more would ruin t...more
