<p>The beloved <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author <em>Making Toast</em> and <em>Kayak Morning</em> returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love.</p><p>In <em>The Book of Love</em>, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations—romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak, fury, confusion, melancholy, delirium, ecstasy; love of family, of friends; love of home, of country, of work, of writing, of solitude, of art; love of nature; love of life itself.</p><p>Rosenblatt is on a quest to illuminate this elusive and essential emotion, to define this thing called love. Cleverly using lines from love songs to create a flowing ballad—as infectious and engaging as a jazz riff—he intersperses fictional vignettes that capture lovers in different situations, ages, and temperaments along with notes addressed to “you,” his wife of fifty years. “The story I have to tell is of you. Of others, too. Other people, other things. But mainly of you. It begins and ends with you. It always comes back to you.”</p><p>Lively yet profound, poignant yet joyous, <em>The Book of Love</em> is a triumph of intellect and imagination: a personal discourse on love that is both novel and timeless. </p>