Adverbs

Two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent’s first homosexual stirrings for his sister’s boyfriend; a doomed, enormously inappropriate tryst between a taxi driver and his passenger; a highschool crush that falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen. In Adverbs, Daniel Handler crafts a brilliantly capricious novel that illuminates the frustrating glory of the most troublesome of emotions: love. Praised for its linguistic playfulness and stylistic panache, Adverbs traces love in all of its dark, triumphant, devastating and sneaky forms, revealing unknown sides to this most universal of themes. Recently optioned by Greene Street Films (Marie Antoinette), Adverbs now also includes a bonus P.S. section.