{"product_id":"in-love-isbn-9781590176665","title":"In Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis “heart-stoppingly good” masterpiece about a crumbling love affair in 1950s New York perfectly captures “the desperate desire for love and the recognition that it is slipping away” (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“One of the greatest, bleakest breakup stories ever told.” —\u003ci\u003e The New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New York in the 1950s. A man on a barstool is telling a story about a woman he met in a bar, early married and soon divorced, her child farmed out to her parents, good-looking, if a little past her prime. They’d gone out, they’d grown close, but as far as he was concerned it didn’t add up to much. He was a busy man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Then one day, out dancing, she runs into a rich awkward lovelorn businessman. He’ll pay for her to be his, pay her a lot. And now the narrator discovers that he is as much in love with her as she is with him, perhaps more, though it will take him a while to realize just how utterly lost he is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Executed with the cool smoky brilliance of a classic Miles Davis track, \u003ci\u003eIn Love\u003c\/i\u003e is an unequaled exploration of the tethered—and untethered—heart.\"Hayes, a master of psychological prose, seems to have cherished few illusions. The fictional world of In Love…is one of brief pleasures and bleak self-knowledge, of discoveries nearly made or made too late…His authorial gaze is so penetrating that it’s practically carcinogenic: you get the feeling that it could, while revealing someone’s insides, disassemble atoms, mutate cells—the illumination of pain leaving scars of its own.\" —Brian Patrick Eha, \u003ci\u003eCity Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The story of a casual love affair that becomes serious as soon it starts to fall apart, \u003ci\u003eIn Love\u003c\/i\u003eharks back to a classic French tradition—what you might call the Novel of Disillusionment—perfected over a century by Constant, Flaubert, Turgenev, and Proust, among others. At the same time, in its use of one-sided dialogue, its film noir sensibility, and its evocation of New York life, this 1953 masterpiece also seems utterly modern—a culmination and a book utterly at home in its moment.\" —Lorin Stein, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a ruthlessly observant novel with heart-stoppingly good sentences…Hayes’ description of a failed trip the two lovers took to the Jersey Shore is one of the greatest scenes of romantic alienation ever written. He pinpoints the desperate desire for love and the recognition that it is slipping away with magnificent precision: It is one of the most confusing states two people can encounter, and to see it rendered in words is rare and lovely.” —Katie Roiphe, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the greatest, bleakest breakup stories ever told.\" —\u003ci\u003e The New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I’ve rarely seen the breakdown of a relationship, in all its banality  and pettiness, evoked more vividly. It’s tough, fresh, very lovely, and  will stay with you.” —Sadie O. Stein, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A  fever chart of an affair records all the fluctuations of feelings which  are intimate and intense, expectant and often disabused, cruel and  vulnerable, and brings to the heat of passion a cooler scrutiny which  comes with its conclusion. . . . A tour de force.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like  Raymond Carver at his best, novelist-cum-screenwriter Alfred Hayes  addresses the human condition and its heartbreaks with brevity and  brutal honesty. \u003ci\u003eIn Love\u003c\/i\u003e was Hayes’s fourth novel, and as the  story unfolds, there is a dreadful sense that the middle-aged  protagonist is heading for disaster by falling in love with a younger  girl who ‘inhabits a world from which he is excluded.’ When a rival  appears, in the shape of a millionaire with an indecent proposal, the  cynicism and misery of the situation become almost unbearable.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Maybe the old canard that the best love letters are those written when  we are out of love goes for the novel too. If so, Alfred Hayes has  written a smashing success. In this, his latest novel, he examines some  of the states of mind, body, and soul which accompany love, without  falling for all that nonsense about affection, intimacy, trust and all  the simple pleasures known to people less sophisticated than the  characters in his book.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[A] noirish masterpiece which combines a plot that prefigures \u003ci\u003eIndecent Proposal\u003c\/i\u003e with the desolate milieu of an Edward Hopper painting. ” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eIn Love \u003c\/i\u003eis strange, unsettling, cynical and sad. It is a masterpiece. But if you are in love and want to believe, then don’t read it.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This is a marvelously well wrought novel; there are not many current  books so completely finished in terms of verbal felicities.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A little masterpiece.” —Elizabeth Bowen\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Besides being a technical tour de force, \u003ci\u003eIn Love \u003c\/i\u003eis literature; it is a work of art.” —Julian Maclaren-Ross, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Quite the best he has written.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Moving and convincing...a lyrical, intelligent book.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Hayes has done for bruised men what Jean Rhys does for bruised women,  and they both write heartbreakingly beautiful sentences.” —Paul Bailey, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A very remarkable novel; altogether outstanding in the unwavering  concentration with which it pursues the problem of the reality of love.  The story is stripped down to its bare essentials.... Quite  unforgettable.” —John Lehmann, BBC\u003cb\u003eAlfred Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e (1911–1985) was born into a Jewish family in Whitechapel, London, though his father, a barber, trained violinist, and sometime bookie, moved the family to New York when Hayes was three. After attending City College, Hayes worked as a reporter for the \u003ci\u003eNew York American\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDaily Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e and began to publish poetry, including “Joe Hill,” about the legendary labor organizer, which was later set to music by the composer Earl Robinson and recorded by Joan Baez. During World War II Hayes was assigned to a special services unit in Italy; after the war he stayed on in Rome, where he contributed to the story development and scripts of several classic Italian neorealist films, including Roberto Rossellini’s \u003ci\u003ePaisà\u003c\/i\u003e (1946) and Vittorio De Sica’s \u003ci\u003eBicycle Thieves \u003c\/i\u003e(1948), and gathered material for two popular novels, \u003ci\u003eAll Thy Conquests\u003c\/i\u003e (1946) and \u003ci\u003eThe Girl on the Via Flaminia\u003c\/i\u003e (1949), the latter the basis for the 1953 film \u003ci\u003eAct of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Kirk Douglas. In the late 1940s Hayes went to work in Hollywood, writing screenplays for \u003ci\u003eClash by Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Hatful of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Left Hand of God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJoy in the Morning\u003c\/i\u003e, and Fritz Lang’s \u003ci\u003eHuman Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as scripts for television. Hayes was the author of seven novels, a collection of stories, and three volumes of poetry. In addition to \u003ci\u003eIn Love\u003c\/i\u003e, NYRB Classics publishes \u003ci\u003eMy Face for the World to See\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederic Raphael\u003c\/b\u003e is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, translator, and critic. His screenwriting credits include \u003ci\u003eDarling\u003c\/i\u003e (for which he won an Oscar), \u003ci\u003eFar from the Madding Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwo for the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, and, with the director Stanley Kubrick, \u003ci\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300924182757,"sku":"NP9781590176665","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590176665.jpg?v=1767729923","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/in-love-isbn-9781590176665","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}