# Heartbreak

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- Book: [Heartbreak](https://www.bookquiver.com/craig-raine/heartbreak) ([Heartbreak.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/craig-raine/heartbreak.md))
- Authors: [Craig Raine](https://www.bookquiver.com/craig-raine)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-18-4887-511-1
- Published: 2012-11-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

What becomes of the broken-hearted? Craig Raine’s first novel is an exquisite, moving, erotic investigation of love and its painful corollary. In Heartbreak , Craig Raine’s startlingly moving, intellectually nimble, sexually candid, wickedly funny first novel, the central character is not a person, but an invisible metaphor: heartbreak. Through the stories of a virtuoso cast of characters – among them a physically scarred academic, a strangely beautiful young girl with Down’s syndrome, a world-renowned actress, and a brilliant Czech poet – Heartbreak investigates one of the most elusive yet deeply felt of human conditions. It is a compassionate and textured novel about what happens to us when love and loss collide.