{"product_id":"the-man-of-feeling-9780811216777","title":"The Man of Feeling","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarass riveting novel about an opera singer and an extramarital affair. Glinting like a moonstone with layers of emotion  The Man of Feeling is a sleek and strange tale of cosmopolitan love. An affair between a married woman and a young man just becoming an opera star (curiously helped along by the husbands factotum) meets with adamant resistance from the implacable husband.  Narrated by the young opera singer  the novel opens as he recalls traveling on a train from Milan to Venice  silently absorbed for hours by the woman asleep opposite his seat. In the measured tones of memory  The Man of Feeling revolves on the poles of anticipation and recollection. The peculiar rarified life lived in the worlds luxury hotels  a life of rehearsal and performance  the constant travel and ghost-like detachment of our protagonist adds a deeper tone to the novels weave of desire and detachment  of consideration and reconsideration: its epigraph cites William Hazlitt: \"I think myself into love \/And I dream myself out of it.\" As Maras remarks in a brief afterword  this is a love story \"in which love is neither seen nor experienced  but announced and remembered.\" Can love be recalled truly when it no longer exists? That twist will continue to revolve in the readers mind  conjuring up in its disembodied way Henry James The Turn of the Screw. Beautifully translated into English for the first time by Margaret Jull Costa  this fascinating and eerie early novel by Javier Maras bears out his reputation for the \"dazzling\" (TLS) and \"startling\" (The New York Times).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931534590005,"sku":"ByrdShop_0811216772","price":59.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780811216777.jpg?v=1794214215","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-man-of-feeling-9780811216777","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}