The Pure Lover

A powerful and tragic memoir about the lifelong love between two men, from a well-loved and critically acclaimed author
 
The Pure Lover is David Plante’s moving response to his life partner’s death from brain cancer. Consumed by grief, Plante found memory after memory of his partner of forty years, Nikos Stangos, flooding into his mind, and he began to write them down. Over time, these fragments took on a literary life of their own, evolving into a poignant testament to a remarkable love and a tribute to the survivor’s attempt to wrench meaning out of absence.