Word: romanticized
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You can bet your velvet-covered pangolin that few readers will be distracted by the loose grammar and exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then...
If you're trying to impress your date, a California Pizza Kitchen gelato ball (Tartufo) is the perfect end to a romantic evening.
In his second novel, The Romantic Movement (Picador USA; 326 pages; $23), the unforgivably young and unforgivably knowing writer, now 25, gives us more of the same, presenting himself as a Stendhal of the '90s dating scene. Alice works in an ad agency, Eric in commodities. They meet at a...
The Romantic Movement is somewhat more diffuse and abstract than his first book, and if believers will say he's refining his theme, skeptics will feel he's repeating himself. Still, it is stuffed with details that feel as familiar as old coins rediscovered in one's back pocket. Light...
Like ballroom dancing, fencing is a sport that invokes romantic images of brilliant swordplay and dashing heroes like those famed in the Three Musketeers and Zorro.