In Love - Peter Owen Modern Classics Author:Alfred Hayes Fifty years ago Alfred Hayes was regarded as one of the most interesting and original American novelists and he deserves to be better known today. In Love is set in the Manhattan bar scene of the forties and reads like a Edward Hopper painting. A middle aged man tells a young woman on an adjacent bar stool the story of his last love affair: a re... more »lationship in the thoroughly modern sense, full of misplaced lust and misunderstood emotion. The moody and evasive pair had a mostly erratic affair, downbeat, dysfunctional and on the brink of sinking without a trace - until an unscrupulous millionaire intervened. In Love is as much an indictment of love as an elegy to it, an examination of heartbreak, rather than the heart itself. A finely crafted work of enduring literary merit.""--The Midwest Book Review« less