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“Scott Spencer writes about love’s tenacity with passionate intensity….From his remarkable opening sentence he had me in thrall.”
—Newsweek

 

First published three decades ago, and hailed as “one of the best books of the year” by the New York Times, here is the classic novel that first established Scott Spencer…

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1 author picked Endless Love as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Young love gone off the rails. David, the teenage narrator, loves his girlfriend so much or so badly that he lights her family’s house on fire. The aftermath of that choice—his desperation to explain, to have them understand what he meant—propels him forward and us backward as he tells the story of an intense and overwhelming first love.

I felt carried away by this book. It was the kind I read with one hand over my mouth, half my brain going “no, no, no” as I kept turning the pages.

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