Evan Mandery: Q: A Novel, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Beschreibung

You must not marry Q. This is the fateful and heartbreaking message delivered to the protagonist by someone who knows him very, very well, and it comes so deep into a sweet courtship all around New York City. Yet Q is the love of his life and they are engaged to be wed, and soon. But, for clear and painful reasons, he now knows he cant go through with it, for her sake, and so begins a journey to find a way to spare her any pain and to embark on any new path possible to happiness - or any semblance thereof - following a dramatic Thanksgiving Day dinner with a houseful of odd guests at Qs parents house. He loses himself in his writing and in research of historical figures, notably Freud and his own unhappiness, and he is also given regular updates on how to live life by the same well-meaning but disturbing friend. Evan Mandery takes the love story and turns it on its head, in the sweetest and most thoughtful way, with humor and angst in equal measure - okay, more humor that you would expect - and gives us a totally surprising ending that will melt the darkest heart.

Klappentext

?Q, Quentina Elizabeth Deveril, is the love of my life.?
Shortly before his wedding, the unnamed hero of this uncommon romance is visited by a man who claims to be his future self and ominously admonishes him that he must not marry the love of his life, Q. At first the protagonist doubts this stranger, but in time he becomes convinced of the authenticity of the warning and leaves his fiancée. The resulting void in his life is impossible to fill. One after the other, future selves arrive urging him to marry someone else, divorce, attend law school, leave law school, travel, join a running club, stop running, study the guitar, the cello, Proust, Buddhism, and opera, and eliminate gluten from his diet. The only constants in this madcap quest for personal improvement are his love for his New York City home and for the irresistible Q.
A unique literary talent, Evan Mandery turns the classic story of transcendent love on its head, with an ending that will melt even the darkest heart.