This is a love story: a novel
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"For fifty years Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew--their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives--and the parts they didn't always want to know--the determined young student of Abe's lookng for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park itself, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself." --
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Soffer, J. (2025). This is a love story: a novel. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Soffer, Jessica. 2025. This Is a Love Story: A Novel. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Soffer, Jessica, This Is a Love Story: A Novel. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025.
MLA Citation (style guide)Soffer, Jessica. This Is a Love Story: A Novel. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025.
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| Last Sierra Extract Time | Sep 17, 2025 02:12:16 PM |
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| Last File Modification Time | Sep 17, 2025 02:12:25 PM |
| Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Sep 18, 2025 01:19:23 AM |
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