In the wake of the tragic death of his beautiful and independent young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles to hold together his own life, his family, and his town, while dealing with his personal anger, grief, and loss of faith. By the author of Amy and Isabelle. (General Fiction)
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Praise for Amy and Isabelle
“Stunning . . . heartbreaking . . . Every once in a long while, a novel comes along that plunges deep into your psyche, leaving you breathless.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”
–Alice Munro
“Excellent . . . unflaggingly engaging . . . What a pleasure to gain entry into the world of this book.”
–The New Yorker
L'autore:
Elizabeth Strout’s first novel, Amy and Isabelle, won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award as well as the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. Currently she is on the faculty of the low-residency M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She lives in New York City.
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- EditoreRandom House Large Print
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 0739325914
- ISBN 13 9780739325919
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine434
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