In a captivating departure, Larry Watson , a writer whose work is worthy of prizes ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ), unveils a portrait of faith, obsession, and enduring love -- and a work of greater tenderness than anything he has yet written.
Laura Love captures Paul Finley, in, of all places, his own bedroom -- literally waking him from his dreams.
The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched.
Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father.
No matter; Paul is smitten.
When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: Forget me.
Laying bare the inner life of one man during the course of nearly four decades, Larry Watson delivers a riveting treatise on the excruciating power of love -- and two of the most remarkable characters in recent American literature.
Infused with breathtaking pathos and delicate grace, Laura is an extraordinary triumph of the novelist's art.
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Washington Square Press Laura, paperback/larry watson
