Adverbs (novel)
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| Author | Daniel Handler |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Ecco |
| Released | 5 Jun 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 272 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0060724412 (first edition, hardback) |
Adverbs is a novel written by Daniel Handler. It is formatted as a collection of interconnected short stories from the points of view of different people in various sorts of love. Each of the titles is an adverb describing what sort of love the people are dealing with. Some people are "wrongly" in love, others are "briefly" in love, etc. The book focuses on the ways that people fall in love, instead of focusing on who they are in love with.
[edit] Plot Summary
From the dustjacket
Adverbs is a novel about love — a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love. At the start of the novel, Andrea is in love with David — or maybe it's Joe — who instead falls in love with Peter in a taxi. At the end of the novel, it's Joe who's in the taxi, falling in love with Andrea, although it might not be Andrea, or in any case it might not be the same Andrea, as Andrea is a very common name. So is Allison, who is married to Adrian in the middle of the novel, although in the middle of the ocean she considers a fling with Keith and also with Steve, whom she meets in an automobile, unless it's not the same Allison who meets the Snow Queen in a casino, or the same Steve who meets Eddie in the middle of the forest....
[edit] Major themes
It might sound confusing, but that's love, and as the author says, It is not the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. This novel is about people trying to find love in the ways it is done before the volcano erupts and the miracle ends.
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