Evening (Vintage Contemporaries)
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARJuly 1954. An island off the coast of Maine. Ann Grant—a 25-year-old New York career girl—is a bridesmaid at her best friend's lavish wedding. Also present is a man named Harris Arden, whom Ann has never met . . .After three marriages and five children, Ann...
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARJuly 1954. An island off the coast of Maine. Ann Grant—a 25-year-old New York career girl—is a bridesmaid at her best friend's lavish wedding. Also present is a man named Harris Arden, whom Ann has never met . . .After three marriages and five children, Ann Lord lies in an upstairs bedroom of a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What comes to her, eclipsing a stream of doctor's visits and friends stopping by and grown children overheard whispering from the next room, is a rush of memories from a weekend 40 years ago in Maine, when she fell in love with a passion that even now throws a shadow onto the rest of her life. In Evening, Susan Minot gives us a novel of spellbinding power on the nature of memory and love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307387127 (0307387127)
Publish date: May 1st 2007
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Love,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Death
A unique end of life perspective. Some of her writing bugs me as does the lack of punctuation, but it doesn' distract too much (doesn't add anything either)
Last day of a woman's life. She remembers a past love.