{"product_id":"lost-love","title":"Lost Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eStunning stories that explore the countless ways we pursue love and occasionally misplace it, or sometimes just let it slip through our fingers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Guralnick’s storytelling voice is a marvel: uniquely conversational, consistently erudite and witty. In these stories he has created an unforgettable cast of dreamers, misfits, and observers struggling to navigate the distance between who they are and who they set out to be. Like Guralnick’s prize-winning biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke and Sam Phillips, these stories find their meaning in perfectly observed detail: They are deeply felt and deeply examined, while never failing to show empathy for characters longing to find a place in a world where everyone else seems to have found theirs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn one story, a chance meeting in a Key West bar brings fleeting refuge to two damaged souls. In another, an aging creative writing professor confronts his own loss of self-belief in the face of a student’s unmistakable brilliance. The suicide of a childhood friend twenty-five years after childhood is over brings two teenage lovers together for a brief, fragile time. At the heart of the collection, Guralnick transports readers to the smoky rhythm and blues bars, ragged baseball diamonds, bookstores, and book-lined apartments of Boston and Cambridge in the 1950s and ‘60s. Three stories follow Danny, a young boy growing up in a second-and-third-generation family that is confident in the promise of assimilation: a grandfather brimming over with positive energy; a father returned from the war to pick up an interrupted life he can’t wait to begin; a mother struggling with an increasingly debilitating deafness that threatens to upend her world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollectively, these stories evince a heartbroken beauty, shot through with a profound sensitivity to all that can hurt us, all that holds us back, all that makes us human. With this collection Peter Guralnick achieves a new creative high point. As writer Mark Harris (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBang the Drum Slowly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) said of his novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNighthawk Blues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, some years ago, “We can all be pleased and grateful that Guralnick came to fiction. We knew he was a comprehensive reporter, and now we know that he is extraordinarily able as a storyteller, too.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eLost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLove\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLost Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a revelation, a brilliant collection of stories by a major American writer. Peter Guralnick’s poignant and darkly comic short fiction evokes a lost world of Harvard Square bohemians and restless teenage existentialists, perched on the cusp of the Sixties, the ground trembling beneath their feet.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Perrotta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eElection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Leftovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Deeply felt and deeply imagined, these stories go straight for the jugular—and the heart. Filled with damaged souls and meaningful moments, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLost Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is, in my opinion, Peter Guralnick’s very best work.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Peter Guralnick’s stories give testimony to the truth that fiction best delivers. Each narrative opens like a portal, swiftly transporting readers to another time and place, another world.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorraine M. López\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gifted Gabaldón Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The stories in Peter Guralnick’s brave, tender collection chart submerged continents where heartbreak can lurk behind every warm, elegantly crafted sentence. This is a beautiful book.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Piazza\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCity of Refuge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Like some kind of miraculous stray artifact from the postwar canon, the tales in Guralnick’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLost Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are each in themselves perfectly lucid, yet form a shape around a mystery, the ultimately elusive passage into selfhood.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fortress of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“You may know Peter Guralnick as one of America’s very greatest music writers. Now he turns his attention to popular music’s themes: his characters are lost, lonely, confused, heartbroken, lustful, regretful. This is a terrific collection of stories, absorbing, wise, surprising and moving.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Hornby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Godine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43002148159606,"sku":"978-1-56792-851-8","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/6087\/7686\/files\/9781567928518_FC.jpg?v=1769180750","url":"https:\/\/godine.com\/products\/lost-love","provider":"Godine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}