set In The Art Scene Of Postwar New York, A Commune In The Early Seventies, And Contemporary Small-town New England, A Peculiar Grace Is A Remarkable Achievement By One Of Our Finest Authors And An Insightful Portrait Of Family Secrets, With An Unforgettable Cast Of Characters Who Have Learned To Survive By Giving Shape To Their Losses.
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family-fracturing Secrets Are At The Heart Of Lent's Luminous Third Novel, A Transcendent Story About The Healing Power Of Love And Art. Two Decades After An Intense Romance Curdles, Hermetic Hewitt Pearce Is Living In His Family's Rural Vermont Home, Firing Up His Tractor For The Occasional Two-mile Trip To The Village, Sometimes Hiding In His Hay Barn, And Producing Prized Custom Ironwork When The Spirit Moves Him. Upheaval Arrives In The Form Of Jessica, A Psychologically Troubled Waif With Mysterious Connections To Hewitt's Late Artist Father. Then Hewitt Learns That Emily, The Girl He Loved Years Earlier And Whose Life He Has Tracked From Afar, Is Now A Widow. Evocative Flashbacks Reveal His Family's Turbulent History, Including Hewitt's Days Of Sex, Drugs, And Rock And Roll On A Commune And His Dark Period Of Death-by-whisky Drinking After Breaking Up With Emily. This Sympathetic Depiction Of A Decent Man Wrestling With His Demons While Deciding Whether To Revive An Old Love Or Open Himself To A New Lover Is Less Visceral Than Lent's Astonishing Debut, in The Fall, And Less Gritty Than His Second Novel, lost Nation, But It's No Less Magisterial And Every Bit As Beautifully Written. (aug.)
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- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- City Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Grove Press
Author : Lent, Jeffrey
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2008-06-10
Number Of Pages : 416
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0802143660
ISBN-13 : 9780802143662
Item weight : 1.07 lb
Dimensions : 1.14 in x 5.55 in x 8.31 in
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