Adverbs - Softcover

"The stories are clever, unsettling, confusing, and often brilliantly moving."--Library Journal

"Brilliantly kooky and off-kilter."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"[Handler] oozes wit and he's an astute social observer. The book's offbeat sweetness charms."--Charlotte Observer

"Daniel Handler [is] something like an American Nabokov."--Dave Eggers

"This lovely, lilting book...dramatizes love's cross-purposes with panache."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A collection of intersecting stories explores diverse facets and manifestations of human love through the eyes of two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent experiencing a first homosexual attraction; a taxi driver and his passenger; and others. By the author of The Basic Eight. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.