Hello. I am Daniel Handler the author of this book. Did you know that authors often write the summaries that appear on their book's dust jacket? You might want to think about that the next time you read something like "A dazzling page-turner this novel shows an internationally acclaimed storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers." "Adverbs" is a novel about love -- a bunch of different people in and out of different kinds of love. At the start of the novel Andrea is in love with David -- or maybe it's Joe -- who instead falls in love with Peter in a taxi. At the end of the novel it's Joe who's in the taxi falling in love with Andrea although it might not be Andrea or in any case it might not be the same Andrea as Andrea is a very common name. So is Allison who is married to Adrian in the middle of the novel although in the middle of the ocean she considers a fling with Keith and also with Steve whom she meets in an automobile unless it's not the same Allison who meets the Snow Queen in a casino or the same Steve who meets Eddie in the middle of the forest. . . . It might sound confusing but that's love and as the author -- me -- says "It is not the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs the way things are done." This novel is about people trying to find love in the ways it is done before the volcano erupts and the miracle ends. Yes there's a volcano in the novel. In my opinion a volcano automatically makes a story more interesting.
