The Romantic Author: Barbara Gowdy Hardcover Usually ships in 24 hours Delivery is subject to warehouse availability. Shipping delays may occur if we receive more orders than stock. Our Price: $38.95 Our Sale Price: $27.26 Savings: $11.69 (30%) Ordering is 100% secure . Spend $39 or more at chapters.indigo.ca and your order ships free!. ( Details ) Canadian Author | ISBN: 0002005050 Published: February 2003 | Published by Harpercollins Canada, Limited From the Publisher Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only–and incorrectly–Louise knows how to work the washing machine. Not long after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion to the exotic and motherly Mrs. Richter is quickly transferred to her nature-loving, precociously intelligent son. From this childhood friendship evolves a love that will bind Louise and Abel for the rest of their lives. Though Abel moves away, Louise's attachment becomes only more fixed as she grows up. Separations are followed by reunions, but with every turn of their fractured relationship, Louise discovers that she cannot get Abel to love her as fiercely and exclusively as she loves him. Only when Louise comes face to face with another great loss is she finally forced to confront the costs of abandoning herself to another. Skilfully interweaving the stories of Abel and Louise at different ages, Gowdy produces a powerful exploration of the many incarnations of love: a motherless daughter who yearns to be adopted, a husband eternally linked to a wife who has left him, a girl bewitched by the peculiar boy next door, a woman who refuses to let go of a magnetic, elusive man. Haunting and profound, The Romantic is a story about love in all its exquisite variations. About the Author Barbara Gowdy is an award-winning author whose four previous books, The White Bone , Mister Sandman , We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels , have appeared on bestseller lists throughout the world. The recipient of the Marian Engel Award in 1996, she has twice been a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for a Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Barbara Gowdy lives in Toronto. Info Desk iREWARDS Program About Our Company Affiliate Opportunities Careers Contact Us Corporate Sales Gift Certificates Privacy Policy Shipping Rates Store Locations Wish List chapters.indigo.ca: books Shopping Bag | Account Centre | Wish List | Help iREWARDS Program | Corporate Sales | Store Locations All Products Books DVD Video Gifts Books Advanced Search Search Tips About this Book From the Publisher About the Author Fiction Action Suspense Anthologies Classics Erotica Fairy Tales and Folklore Family Sagas Gay Ghost Graphic Novels Historical Horror Humorous Legal Lesbian Literary Medical Movie and Television Tie-Ins Religious Short Stories War Westerns Browse Books View all Categories . Books at Coles and Coles Bookstore Chapters Book Store • Indigo Website, Canada • Chapters Website, Canada • Chapters Bookstore Locations • Canadian Stores • Chapters Indigo Ca Coupons • Chapters Ontario • Chapters Indego • Chapters Head Office • Chaptersbooks • www Chapters Indigo Com • Chapters In Montreal • Chapters Indigo Toronto • www.Chapters Indigo • Chapters Book Shop • Chapters Website • Indigo Online Bookstore • Chapters Ca Coupon • Coles, Canada • Chapters Victoria • Chapters Discounts • Chapters Com • Chapters Books Toronto • Chapters Head Office • Chapters Indogo • . For more used books and discount textbooks at Chapters Bookstore, Canada online bookstore, follow this link.