Cover of The Romantic

The Romantic

by Barbara Gowdy

Publication
First published 2003
ISBN
9780007156283, 9780002005050, 9780006392262

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Lacking maternal love since the age of nine, when her mother abandoned the family, Louise Kirk develops a near-lifelong obsession with the boy from across the street--now a man who is incapable of loving her as much as she loves him.

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