I Want to Know What Love Is: A Brief Book on Love, Loneliness, and Compulsion

By Saul Rosenthal

This confessional reminiscence is part autobiography, part self-help therapy, and part meditation on love. It is the heart of a journal over three decades of a tormented life. While searching for love, the author, a failed playwright and a loner, leads a secret double life. Publicly he is an English professor, but privately a dissolute and self-abusing racetrack tout trapped in a love/hate addiction to the horses.

Redemption comes, but comes slow and hard.

From an editor:
Dear Mr. Rosenthal,
Many thanks for sending your manuscript, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS. We publish only plays and musicals for the theater. You will find your manuscript enclosed.
I did, however, read your manuscript. The title entranced me. Once I started reading I could not put it down. What a beautiful piece of work. I apologize for keeping it for so long. But I did not want to part with it!
Best wishes on your search for a publisher.
Sincerely,
Donna Cozzaglio
Editorial Department
I. E. Clark Publications

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504966849

Saul Rosenthal

Saul Rosenthal is a retired English professor, having taught at three Midwest universities. In addition to being an author and journalist, he has written a dozen plays. Several have won awards in national competitions.

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