Tom Quinn's novel is a wide-ranging interrogation of desire and love in their many varied scenes and moods. It recounts the love life of its protagonist from early childhood to mature middle-age. It embraces desire, love, transcendence, but also separation, loss, heartbreak, and despair. It presents the anatomy of being in love and its consequences. It takes the reader on a lifelong journey where love is everything, and where the end of love is the end of all. It is the life story of a lovelife. It contains some of the most powerful and moving descriptions of being in love the reader will ever encounter. --- "The pages that follow constitute a novel. They do not constitute a biography of any kind, and they are not concerned with any truth or truths. They may be construed as representing the anatomy of a lovelife, and they may be seen to represent the strong emotions experienced in sexual desire and love. The narrator is a man concerned with his own extinction. His vision is that of someone looking out over the brief sea of constellated glittering time which has constituted his life and recalling the exaltation and heartbreak that attended him there. It is the novel of a man without hope. It is an end, not a beginning. It is the novel of a last breath saying goodbye. 'I wish I could have loved you more.'"