{"id":45276,"date":"2025-09-01T05:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/book-excerpt-heart-the-lover-by-lily-king\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T05:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:16:40","slug":"book-excerpt-heart-the-lover-by-lily-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/book-excerpt-heart-the-lover-by-lily-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Book excerpt: &#8220;Heart the Lover&#8221; by Lily King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/29\/0982b05c-e3cd-45a7-829f-64d21360f655\/thumbnail\/620x465\/e5f7f612423180be191da6e48910038b\/heart-the-lover-grove-1280.jpg#\" alt=\"heart-the-lover-grove-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/29\/0982b05c-e3cd-45a7-829f-64d21360f655\/thumbnail\/620x465\/e5f7f612423180be191da6e48910038b\/heart-the-lover-grove-1280.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/29\/0982b05c-e3cd-45a7-829f-64d21360f655\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/0d07ce16e5b51f9a39a05217ffa249be\/heart-the-lover-grove-1280.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Grove Press<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Lily King, the award-winning author of &#8220;Writers &amp; Lovers&#8221; and &#8220;Euphoria,&#8221; returns with her latest novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/groveatlantic.com\/book\/heart-the-lover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Heart the Lover&#8221;<\/a> (to be published September 30 by Grove Press), about a young woman drawn into a complicated friendship with two male classmates in college. Years later, she must consider how those friendships, and her youthful decisions, still shape her life.<\/p>\n<p>Read an excerpt below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heart-Lover-Lily-King\/dp\/0802165176?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Heart the Lover&#8221; by Lily King<\/a><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>Prefer to listen?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=18145289011&amp;linkCode=ll2&amp;tag=cbs-news-20&amp;linkId=aa786326720cc98c8ec74d842c39745b&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow, sponsored, noopener\">Audible<\/a>\u00a0has a 30-day free trial available right now.  <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>You knew I&#8217;d write a book about you someday. You said once that I&#8217;d dredged up the whole hit parade minus you. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never know how you&#8217;d tell it.<\/p>\n<p>For me it begins here. Like this. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>The professor is holding up two neon-orange pieces of paper. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Despite its vulgar packaging,&#8217; he says, waving a page in each hand like a flagman at Daytona, &#8216;I feel compelled to read this one aloud.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>The assignment had been to write a contemporary version of Bacon&#8217;s essay &#8216;History of Life and Death.&#8217; I&#8217;d waited till the last minute to write it. The only paper we had in the house was this thick stuff left over from our Halloween party. And it wasn&#8217;t easy, feeding that cardstock into my typewriter. <\/p>\n<p>The professor doesn&#8217;t read it as much as perform it. He gives it far more life and humor than I imagined it had. <\/p>\n<p>There are two smart guys in the class. They sit up front together and I see only the backs of their heads, one with coppery brown hair and the other with a thick black ponytail. The professor runs things by them so often I assume they&#8217;re his grad school TAs. When my essay gets passed back to me, they both turn to watch where it goes.<\/p>\n<p>After that day, the copper-haired one begins migrating back. Three classes later, he takes a seat beside me. <\/p>\n<p>Soon he is walking me across campus to Modern Furniture, the only art history class that wasn&#8217;t full by the time I signed up. Our seventeenth-century lit class has only about thirty people, but Modern Furniture is held in an auditorium with cushioned seats set on a steep slope down to the professor at his podium. Behind him is a big screen that flashes pictures of Corbusier&#8217;s B 306 chaise longue and Bauhaus nesting tables. I catch up on a lot of sleep in that class. <\/p>\n<p>Sam has short halting steps and speaks in fits and starts too, little articulate bursts then a good bit of silence. We talk exclusively about the class. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s not focusing enough on Cromwell,&#8217; he says, &#8216;and how resistance to him galvanized the imagination of this whole generation of writers.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>I agree. What else can I do? I am a mere student, and he is a scholar. That much is clear right away. I&#8217;ve never met a scholar who wasn&#8217;t a professor. And Sam isn&#8217;t even a grad student. He&#8217;s a senior, like me. <\/p>\n<p>Later I go to the library and read about who Cromwell was, and the next time we walk to Modern Furniture I make a very small joke about the Rump Parliament. Sam&#8217;s laugh is soundless, more like panting. <\/p>\n<p>He asks me if I&#8217;ve seen <em>The Deer Hunter<\/em> and I say yes and I figure he&#8217;s going to make a comparison somehow with Venitore, the hunter, in <em>The Compleat Angler<\/em>. Instead he asks me if I want to see it again, with him. It&#8217;s playing on campus Friday night. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Excerpted from &#8220;Heart the Lover&#8221; \u00a9 2025 by Lily King. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. 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