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This may be one of the those books that I would have been better off reading instead of listening to the audiobook. It would have been helpful to be able to go back and refresh my memory on a few things but in the end, I still liked the book.
The story centers around a book called "The History of Love" written by a man named Leo Gurskey for a girl named Alma. Leo is now in his 80's and living alone in New York and is unaware the impact his book has had on the lives of other people.
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The story centers around a book called "The History of Love" written by a man named Leo Gurskey for a girl named Alma. Leo is now in his 80's and living alone in New York and is unaware the impact his book has had on the lives of other people.
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"The first woman may have been Eve, but the first girl will always be Alma... Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you wanted to draw her, and a part of you resisted -- wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made y
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I read this book over a decade ago and loved it. I have recommended it to countless people through the years, so I decided to do it again but this time along with the audio. And I loved Leo Gursky even more this time. Still a wonderful, interesting, complex and moving novel. Leo is the best.
There are more than two stories, and you see them through the eyes of more than three persons in the novel. My melancholic side will say, "With love, you can do anything."
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