Love May Fail, Matthew Quick
Love May Fail, Matthew Quick
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Love May Fail
A Novel

Author: Matthew Quick

Narrator: Cris Dukehart, Jim Meskimen, Lorna Raver, Tonya Campos, Tim Fannon

Unabridged: 12 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/16/2015

Synopsis

An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness—and her high school English teacher—in New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick’s offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal.Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Lost and alone, looking to find the goodness in the world she believes still exists, Portia sets off to save herself by saving someone else—a beloved high school English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident.Will a sassy nun, an ex-heroin addict, a metal-head little boy, and her hoarder mother help or hurt her chances on this madcap quest to restore a good man’s reputation and find renewed hope in the human race? Love May Fail is a story of the great highs and lows of existence: the heartache and daring choices it takes to become the person you know (deep down) you are meant to be.

About Matthew Quick

Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an Oscar-winning film, and The Good Luck of Right Now. His work has been translated into thirty languages and has received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention. Q lives with his wife, the novelist-pianist Alicia Bessette, on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May

When you catch your husband screwing a girl half your age, you are permitted to be bitchy, even when talking to adorable nuns on airplanes - nuns who buy you vodka, even. If a mid-life crisis took book form, I believe it would look something like this. Not surprisingly, it's boring, and it's also......more

Goodreads review by Will

Matthew Quick deals in damage control, from the very nervous Pat Peoples in Silver Linings Playbook to the probably autistic Bartholomew Neil in The Good Luck of Right Now, to a crate of bruised produce in his latest novel, Love May Fail. Portia Kane made a bad choice when she was younger, going for......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

There's no failing for those with hope! Matthew Quick has a remarkable talent building unique characters, worlds and stories that bring humanity to light. Portia Kane had been married to a lying, disrespectful porn producer for years and upon discovering him screwing a teen, escapes to live with her......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

At times a bit melodramatic and cheesy . . . but I liked it a lot! 4 to 4.5 stars It has been a long time since I have read any Matthew Quick. I remember having more success with his books than failures and some of my fondest reading memories come from some of his books. So, when I was going through m......more

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