Endless Love

by Lisa Shapiro

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562802135
• ISBN13: 9781562802134
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Naiad Pr
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

When your copy arrives, call in sick...

...and tell your friends to keep an eye on you, because you won't be able to put Endless Love down, even if your house catches fire. Then get ready to laugh, cry, and see God. Yes, God. Lesbian-style. For a few hours, you will be trapped inside the skin of the troubled protagonist, as love hurtles her through ecstasy, unimaginable pain, then toward peace and wholeness.The prose is glittering, transparent, and the plot, though not suspenseful in the classic sense, will leave you gasping. This is the Great Universal Novel, and wouldn't you know it? The main characters are lesbian, so it's tucked away in a genre drawer. But you won't find any formulas in this sparse and fast-moving tale. Ah, but whether you are lesbian or not, you will laugh and cry and tingle with awe. Buy this book. In fact, load up with as many copies as you can find, because once you lend this book to your friends, you will never see it again. I can't praise this book enough. My only complaint--I wish I'd written it.

Absolutly Wonderful

This book is the first book that I have read that makes me feel like I am there standing beside the characters. It is a very well written book that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys a great love story. It shows overall that we can pick ourselves up at our lowest.

Lisa Shapiro keeps getting better

It is seldom that I find an author who moves me to tears, who stirs my emotions so deeply and whose characters become so movingly alive for me. I have read all 3 of Ms. Shapiro's books; each one has gotten better than the previous. I look forward to any new novel by this author - it is not often that Naiad produces a writer of this caliber. Keep writing, Lisa Shapiro!

A beautiful story of re-building a broken soul

It is very hard for me to find a book that captures my full attention. I read this book in 8hrs. straight through. The emotion that is portrayed is so real, and beautifully written I think I cried most of the way through. I am in love with the courage and strength that the main character shows, and will definitely look forward to reading anything by Lisa Shapiro!

Beautifully written piece on the goodness of thehuman spirit

I first discovered Lisa Shapiro when I read her short story, Familiar Fruit, and was so knocked out by her ability to communicate emotion and her characterizations. I read Sea To Shining Sea and enjoyed it. The Color of Winter gave me some of the same tingle up the back of my neck feelings I got from the short story, but I didn't experience the gut-wrenching emotion I saw in her at first until I read her brand new work, Endless Love. Ms. Shapiro can take your heart and break it in a dozen pieces with these characters, and she does, but then she puts it tenderly back together again, leaving you with the unshakable faith that people are truly special and wonderful, that love is real and utterly beautiful and that passion is so much more than a hot jump in the sack. This book isn't schlocky romance-it's serious stuff that makes you feel your heart beating in your chest. Then you turn the page and Shap! iro has you burst out laughing at something Andrea does or thinks. It's poignant and sensitive-Shapiro paints despair so vividly your body hurts, but she also paints love that has strength and dignity. I was blown away. Shapiro has written a piece at the very upper end of Naiad's quality. Brava!