Adverbs: A Novel

Adverbs

marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult fictionas he tackles life's most complicated and compelling noun: love. In a seriesof intersecting narratives, Handler crafts a moving and shifting story exploringthe frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions.

Two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent's firsthomosexual stirrings for his sister's boyfriend; a doomed, enormouslyinappropriate tryst between a taxi driver and his passenger; a high school crushthat falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen: Handler'scharacters experience love in all of its dark, triumphant, devastating andsneaky forms. InAdverbs, Daniel Handler reveals to us how the mostuniversal of themes is also the most unknown.