Juliet's Answer
One Man's Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak
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3.7 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Eat, Pray, Love (from a man’s perspective) meets Under the Tuscan Sun—a fresh, heartwarming story about a man who travels to Verona, where he answers letters addressed to Shakespeare’s Juliet, all in an attempt to understand heartbreak, to heal and to find love again.
In fair Verona where we lay our scene…
When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he does something unusual. He travels to Verona, Italy, to become a scribe of Juliet, Shakespeare’s fictional character, all in an attempt to understand his heartbreak. Once there, he volunteers to answer the thousands of letters that arrive addressed to Juliet, letters sent from lovelorn people all over the world who long to understand the mysteries of the human heart.
Glenn’s journey takes him deep into the charming community of Verona, where he learns the traditions of the townspeople and becomes involved in unravelling the truth behind Romeo and Juliet—Did these star-crossed lovers actually exist? Did they live in Verona? Why have they remained at the forefront of hearts and minds for centuries? And what can they teach us about love? At the same time, we learn about Claire, Glenn’s unrequited love, the source of his heartbreak. Was she truly his soul’s match, or was she, like Rosalind in Shakespeare’s classic play, a mere infatuation who pales in comparison the moment his real Juliet enters his life?
When Glenn returns home to Canada and resumes his duties as a Grade 10 English teacher, he undertakes a lively reading of Romeo and Juliet with his students, engaging them in passions past and present. But in an intriguing reversal of fate and fortune, his students—along with an old friend—instruct the teacher on the true meaning of love, loss, and moving on.
An enthralling tale of modern-day love steeped in the romantic traditions of eras past, this is a memoir that will warm your heart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dixon's tiresome and repetitious tale of the quest for solace and love can be summed up quickly in a few words: man falls in love, woman doesn't return love, heartbroken man goes to Verona searching for solace. When Claire spurns Dixon's love, he sets off for Verona the setting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to help members of the Club di Giulietta answer the thousands of letters to Juliet from the lovelorn that arrive annually. All he brings with him are a broken heart, a smattering of Italian, and a lifetime of teaching Romeo and Juliet. After a few months in Verona, he returns to Canada, and, encouraged by the letters he's reading, he writes his own letter to Juliet, and "Juliet" advises him that love arising from a long friendship is the most genuine kind. His hopes that this advice will bear fruit for him and Claire are soon dashed when she gets pregnant and marries someone else. Dejected, Dixon returns to Verona to answer more letters, though not before renewing his friendship with Desiree, who soon joins him in Verona, where the star-crossed lovers soon kiss on Juliet's balcony. In the end, this light narrative feels artificially filled out.
