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The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief

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“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 first met Nikos Stangos in London in 1965. He was a young American—raw, an aspiring writer, in love with a fantasy of Greece half classical and half inspired with the eroticism of Cavafy. Nikos was Greek, a poet, an aesthete and intellectual, a leftist, a survivor of the Nazi occupation of his country: a man of great sophistica...