Edge Seasons - Rilegato

Powning, Beth

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ISBN 10: 0676976417 ISBN 13: 9780676976410

Casa editrice: Knopf Canada, 2005

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From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Hatbox Letters and Shadow Child comes the story of a year of transformation.

In the middle years of her life, Beth Powning stands on a threshold: an “edge season.” Late one August, when Beth and her partner, Peter, observe the deserted sauna bath on their farm near Sussex, New Brunswick, she remembers the faith and energy that went into building it. As they begin to repair the sauna, the project becomes a metaphor for how dreams, relationships and commitments need to be continuously renewed. While their only child, Jake, prepares to leave for university, Beth and Peter contemplate changes of their own.

As fall and winter gradually shut down the vibrant life of the gardens, fields and forests near her home, Beth witnesses the beauty and regenerative force of the natural world, weaving acutely observed descriptions of the countryside with the story of her own intimate transformation. Edge Seasons is an intensely absorbing journey that illuminates how change can shatter even as it strengthens.

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"Edge Seasons engages the reader from the first page. It is a joyful, lyrical celebration of life and of the Earth we inhabit, always grounded in the here and now. Dense as it is with meaning and description, it is an effortless read that makes us look anew at life, and the promise of each day that we are given. It is, quite simply, a wonderful book."
—The Winnipeg Free Press

Praise for The Hatbox Letters:
"Powning brilliantly illuminates grief in all its shape-shifting pain, and in so doing, expands her characters’ lives, and ours."
—The Globe and Mail

"[A] novel of stunning beauty . . . The Hatbox Letters is a moving elegy to things lost and found."
—New Brunswick Reader

"Powning’s exquisite novel sings. . . . As brilliant as the light toward which it reaches."
—The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax)

L'autore:

Beth Powning is the author of Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life, Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss, and, most recently, the novel The Hatbox Letters. She lives in Sussex, New Brunswick, with her partner, the artist Peter Powning.

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