Download or read book The Pure Lover written by David Plante and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pure Lover is David Plante’s elegy to his beloved Nikos Stangos, their forty-year life together, and its tragic end. Written in vivid fragments that, like the pieces of a mosaic, come together into a glimmering whole, it shows us both the wild nature of grief and the intimate conversation that is love.