Book description
In Heartbreak, Craig Raine's startlingly moving, intellectually
nimble, sexually candid, wickedly funny first novel, the central
character is not a person, but an invisible metaphor: heartbreak.
Through the stories of a virtuoso cast of characters - among them a
physically scarred academic, a strangely beautiful young girl with
Down's syndrome, a world-renowned actress, and a brilliant Czech poet
- Heartbreak investigates one of the most elusive yet deeply felt of
human conditions. It is a compassionate and textured novel about what
happens to us when love and loss collide.
