Larger	A Few Thousand Words About Love
	Book Information Publisher: St. Martin's Press Book Type: Paperback Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780312217884 - ISBN-10: 0312217889 Publication Date: 2/1999 Pages: 240

What is this thing called love? Mickey Pearlman invited established writers and rising stars to think about that eternally evocative subject. The answer that emerged from these gifted writers is a collection of original memoirs about: a Broadway songwriting grandmother, the adoption of a biracial daughter, the love of a gay man for his aging grandmother, a Chinese father's love letters to the writer's mother, a traumatic but transformative childbirth experience, a love affair with one's wife in Paris and the familiar sibling rivalry between a toddler and her newborn sister. Like fresh rain falling on time-worn Parisian streets, the writers--Peter Cameron, Ron Carlson, Angela Davis-Gardner, Tim Gautreaux, Myra Goldberg, Brian Hall, Linda Hogan, Caroline Leavitt, Margot Livesey, Elizabeth McCracken, Dennis McFarland, Joyce Carol Oates, Larry O'Connor, Mickey Pearlman, Carolyn See, Katharine Weber, and Shawn Wong--play a contemporary riff on an age-old song.