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This Is a Love Story A Novel by Jessica Soffer Hardcover Read with Jenna Pick 2025 Release

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Synopsis: An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew--their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives--and the parts they didn't always want to know--the determined young student of Abe's looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself. An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it., AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY "This may be the most epic love story I've ever, ever read."--Jenna Bush Hager on TODAY An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew--their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives--and the parts they didn't always want to know--the determined young student of Abe's looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself. An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it. gtin13: 9780593851265 Intended Audience: Trade Item Width: 6.3 in Language: English LCCN: 2024-005223 Dewey Edition: 23/eng/20240618 Item Length: 9.3 in Reviews: "I can't stop thinking about This is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer . . . In New York City, but perhaps in any place, there are moments between the hustle and bustle when you look up to the sky and breathe, grateful to just be for another day. Reading This is a Love Story feels a little like that. Love stories may be far from perfect, but how lucky are we?" -- USA Today "Get ready to have your emotions rocked by this moving family saga about a couple's enduring love and the son who feels left out of their story." -- TODAY.com "It's an ode to a marriage, but also to Central Park itself." -- Town & Country "Soffer's writing is simple yet poetic. Most impressive is her ability to capture the depths of emotions of all her characters while rooting readers in such a strong sense of place...A New York love story at its finest." -- Library Journal "Written with delicate and beautiful brush strokes, this is a love story of a long marriage, a love story of Central Park, a story of how hard life can be, and how the hard leaves its mark, but the love does too. Every once in a while I read a novel and think, What a gift. This is one of those books." --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward " This Is A Love Story is Jessica Soffer's iridescent, kaleidoscopic, homerun of a novel. It's a beautiful book of seasons, marking the cycles of a city, a family, the creative process, and a single and singular life." --Nathan Englander, New York Times bestselling author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth " This Is A Love Story is a revelation--the kind of novel to read in one sitting. It performs the magic trick of being a highly specific story that feels universal and timeless. When you finish, you'll find that your worldview has been gently and deftly altered by an author whose tenderness toward her characters--and toward language itself--is unparalleled." --Liz Moore, bestselling author of Long Bright River and The God of the Woods "With her lyrical, graceful novel of love and art, Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City." --Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street, "Written with delicate and beautiful brush strokes, this is a love story of a long marriage, a love story of Central Park, a story of how hard life can be, and how the hard leaves its mark, but the love does too. Every once in a while I read a novel and think, What a gift. This is one of those books." --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward " This Is A Love Story is Jessica Soffer's iridescent, kaleidoscopic, homerun of a novel. It's a beautiful book of seasons, marking the cycles of a city, a family, the creative process, and a single and singular life." --Nathan Englander, New York Times bestselling author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth " This Is A Love Story is a revelation--the kind of novel to read in one sitting. It performs the magic trick of being a highly specific story that feels universal and timeless. When you finish, you'll find that your worldview has been gently and deftly altered by an author whose tenderness toward her characters--and toward language itself--is unparalleled." --Liz Moore, bestselling author of Long Bright River and The God of the Woods "With her lyrical, graceful novel of love and art, Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City." --Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street, "It's an ode to a marriage, but also to Central Park itself." -- Town & Country "Soffer's writing is simple yet poetic. Most impressive is her ability to capture the depths of emotions of all her characters while rooting readers in such a strong sense of place...A New York love story at its finest." -- Library Journal "Written with delicate and beautiful brush strokes, this is a love story of a long marriage, a love story of Central Park, a story of how hard life can be, and how the hard leaves its mark, but the love does too. Every once in a while I read a novel and think, What a gift. This is one of those books." --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward " This Is A Love Story is Jessica Soffer's iridescent, kaleidoscopic, homerun of a novel. It's a beautiful book of seasons, marking the cycles of a city, a family, the creative process, and a single and singular life." --Nathan Englander, New York Times bestselling author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth " This Is A Love Story is a revelation--the kind of novel to read in one sitting. It performs the magic trick of being a highly specific story that feels universal and timeless. When you finish, you'll find that your worldview has been gently and deftly altered by an author whose tenderness toward her characters--and toward language itself--is unparalleled." --Liz Moore, bestselling author of Long Bright River and The God of the Woods "With her lyrical, graceful novel of love and art, Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City." --Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street, "Get ready to have your emotions rocked by this moving family saga about a couple's enduring love and the son who feels left out of their story." -- TODAY.com "It's an ode to a marriage, but also to Central Park itself." -- Town & Country "Soffer's writing is simple yet poetic. Most impressive is her ability to capture the depths of emotions of all her characters while rooting readers in such a strong sense of place...A New York love story at its finest." -- Library Journal "Written with delicate and beautiful brush strokes, this is a love story of a long marriage, a love story of Central Park, a story of how hard life can be, and how the hard leaves its mark, but the love does too. Every once in a while I read a novel and think, What a gift. This is one of those books." --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward " This Is A Love Story is Jessica Soffer's iridescent, kaleidoscopic, homerun of a novel. It's a beautiful book of seasons, marking the cycles of a city, a family, the creative process, and a single and singular life." --Nathan Englander, New York Times bestselling author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth " This Is A Love Story is a revelation--the kind of novel to read in one sitting. It performs the magic trick of being a highly specific story that feels universal and timeless. When you finish, you'll find that your worldview has been gently and deftly altered by an author whose tenderness toward her characters--and toward language itself--is unparalleled." --Liz Moore, bestselling author of Long Bright River and The God of the Woods "With her lyrical, graceful novel of love and art, Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City." --Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street, "Soffer's unapologetically romantic novel includes many tales that tug at the heartstrings. First and foremost is the long marriage of Abe and Jane, a writer and an artist whose complicated, colorful life together is winding down as she lays dying. While he runs through a litany of their memories together . . . we catch glimpses of other great loves: their son's connection with his grandmother, Jane's mind meld with an old friend, Abe's affinity for the march of words on a page and New Yorkers' devotion to Central Park. Soffer's saga goes down like bittersweet chocolate, with a hint of sugar to soften the sharp edge of loss." --Elisabeth Egan, The New York Times (Book of the Week) "I can't stop thinking about This is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer . . . In New York City, but perhaps in any place, there are moments between the hustle and bustle when you look up to the sky and breathe, grateful to just be for another day. Reading This is a Love Story feels a little like that. Love stories may be far from perfect, but how lucky are we?" -- USA Today "The lyrical novel plays with perspective, most chapters include what the couple recalled from Abe's perspective . . . but it also lends full and empathetic points of view to Jane, their son, the young student in love with Abe, and even--between each changed perspective-- the voice of Central Park itself and the eclectic cast of other lovers who have called its brambling paths their own. A love letter to the panorama of life--and love--in New York City." -- Oprah Daily "A delightfully New York marriage... A touching romance that's also an ode to the urban oasis where it began." -- People "Get ready to have your emotions rocked by this moving family saga about a couple's enduring love and the son who feels left out of their story." -- TODAY.com "It's an ode to a marriage, but also to Central Park itself." -- Town & Country "Soffer's writing is simple yet poetic. Most impressive is her ability to capture the depths of emotions of all her characters while rooting readers in such a strong sense of place...A New York love story at its finest." -- Library Journal "Written with delicate and beautiful brush strokes, this is a love story of a long marriage, a love story of Central Park, a story of how hard life can be, and how the hard leaves its mark, but the love does too. Every once in a while I read a novel and think, What a gift. This is one of those books." --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward " This Is A Love Story is Jessica Soffer's iridescent, kaleidoscopic, homerun of a novel. It's a beautiful book of seasons, marking the cycles of a city, a family, the creative process, and a single and singular life." --Nathan Englander, New York Times bestselling author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth " This Is A Love Story is a revelation--the kind of novel to read in one sitting. It performs the magic trick of being a highly specific story that feels universal and timeless. When you finish, you'll find that your worldview has been gently and deftly altered by an author whose tenderness toward her characters--and toward language itself--is unparalleled." --Liz Moore, bestselling author of Long Bright River and The God of the Woods "With her lyrical, graceful novel of love and art, Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City." --Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street ISBN-13: 9780593851265 Topic: Psychological, Literary Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Item Weight: 15.8 Oz Book Title: This Is a Love Story: a Read with Jenna Pick : a Novel LC Classification Number: PS3619.O37975T45 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Number of Pages: 304 Pages Dewey Decimal: 813/.6 brand: Penguin Publishing Group Publication Year: 2025 Item Height: 1.1 in ISBN-10: 0593851269 Author: Jessica Soffer

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This Is a Love Story: A Novel Jessica Soffer ITEM DESCRIPTION READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY “This may be the most epic love story I’ve ever, ever read.”—Jenna Bush Hager on TODAY An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives—and the parts they didn’t always want to know—the determined young student of Abe’s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself. An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it. FEATURES PAYMENT We accept payment by PayPal only Can accept all kind of credit cards. Please pay as soon as possible after winning an auction, as that will allow us to post your item to you sooner. Payment must be received within 3 business days of auction closing. Before buying, please make sure your PayPal and eBay address is correct. If not, please correct it before payment. We have confidence in our products, but if you are not fully satisfied please contact us within 30 days of purchase and you will get full refund of your money. Return the product in the same condition you received it. Please note - return shipping will be paid by the buyer.

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