Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate is the author of the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, Being with Children, Portrait of My Body, and Totally, Tenderly, Tragically, and of the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of a Summer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Irretrievable

Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the attractive married couple at the center of this engrossing novel by one of Germany's greatest novelists, could not be more unalike. Irretrievable is a nuanced, urbane, affectionate, and profoundly humane reckoning with the blindness of love.

Category: Fiction
Publisher: NYRB Classics
 
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