Juliet's Answer: One Man's Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak

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Simon and Schuster, Feb 7, 2017 - Biography & Autobiography - 248 pages
Eat, Pray, Love meets The Rosie Project in this fresh, heartwarming memoir by a man who travels to Verona and volunteers to answer letters addressed to Shakespeare’s Juliet, all in an attempt to heal his own heartbreak.

When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he packs his bags for Verona, Italy. Once there, he volunteers to answer the thousands of letters that arrive addressed to Juliet—letters sent from lovelorn people all over the world to Juliet’s hometown; people who long to understand the mysteries of the human heart.

Glenn’s journey takes him deep into the charming community of Verona, where he becomes involved in unraveling the truth behind Romeo and Juliet. Did these star-crossed lovers actually exist? Why have they remained at the forefront of hearts and minds for centuries? And what can they teach us about love?

When Glenn returns home to Canada and resumes his duties as an 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.
 

Contents

In fair Verona where we lay our scene
3
Teach me how I should forget to think
23
Starcrossed
51
So smile the heavens
85
Act
109
am fortunes fool
111
Wilt thou be gone?
135
Act Three
157
Any man that can write
159
Arise fair sun
183
Of all days in the year
209
The epiphany of love
237
A Walking Tour of Old Verona
241
Acknowledgments
247
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About the author (2017)

Glenn Dixon is an author, documentary filmmaker, and musician. His book Juliet’s Answer was The Globe and Mail national bestseller and has been published in twelve countries and translated into German, Spanish, and Chinese. He has travelled through seventy-five countries and written for National Geographic magazine, the New York Post, The Walrus, and The Globe and Mail (Toronto).