Dreams of Long Lasting

By Mark Medoff

Book Overview

Extricating himself from an emotionally destructive romance, fledgling playwright Jake Landau returns home and marries a former girlfriend, but their relationship becomes complicated when Jake finds himself falling in love with his wife.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446515973
• ISBN13: 9780446515979
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The most honest portrayal of desire

Dreams of Longlasting is the only book I have read that not only manages to convey an image of the world I live in, but also to hold an optimistic view in the end. So many love stories are full of unrealistic characters and situations. In all Medoff's characters, I can see myself or people I know. I have read this book five or six times, and each time Medoff's humor is fresh and his emotion rings true. "Dear God That I'm Pretty Sure Doesn't Exist," the main character prays, "please help me to forget the only person in my life I ever wanted to remember even after I'm dead." Medoff talks about love in a way that is familiar to me and at the same time more noble than any feeling I have ever felt.