# The Pure Lover

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- Book: [The Pure Lover](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-plante/the-pure-lover) ([The Pure Lover.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-plante/the-pure-lover.md))
- Authors: [David Plante](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-plante)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0700-620-7
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2010-10-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“A wrenching and boldly intimate lament.”—Philip Roth “The Pure Lover leaves one exalted. . . . A lovely book, joyful, plangent and true.”—Washington Post David Plante...