The Assigned Visit - Brossura

Mickle, Shelley Fraser

Brossura

ISBN 10: 157966072X ISBN 13: 9781579660727

Casa editrice: River City Pub, 2007

Riassunto

"Novelist receives journals from an old friend, recounting his social service and transformation by love on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Camille. His life is a metaphor for the nation's complicated shame over Vietnam. She writes his story, providing a way for her to love him as she always wanted to"--Provided by publisher.

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L'autore:

Shelly Fraser Mickle has read many humorous essays on NPR's Morning Edition, and they have been published in a collection titles "The Kids Are Gone, the Dog Is Depressed, and Mom's on the Loose." Other essays (humorous and otherwise) have been published in the Orlando Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune, and the Washington Post. She is the author of the "The Queen of October", which was a New York Times Notable Book; "Replacing Dad", which was made into a CBS Television movie; and "The Turning Hour", which received an award in 2006 from the state of Florida as part of an innovative suicide prevention program in public schools.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

Twenty-two-year-old Susan Masters travels from Mississippi to Massachusetts. There she meets Caleb Montiel, and while studying in the same Harvard writing class, they make a pact: if either of them lives out a story they know to be too emotionally close to handle, they will give it to the other to write. However, life intervenes, and Susan and Caleb lose track of each other. Twenty years later, after Susan has become a successful novelist, she receives a box of journals from Claeb. They tell of his social service on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Camille. There, Caleb meets Grayce Chadwick - Mississippi bred, a wife and mother, extraordinary and irresistible - and is transformed by love. When the townspeople of Pass Christian force Caleb to flee in order to preserve the Chadwick family, his life becomes a metaphor for the complicated shame the nation suffers over the Vietnam years. Using the journals as a starting point, Susan embarks on writing his story - eventually leading to their reunion and a way for her to love as she always wished she could. "The Assigned Visit" is not unlike Dr. Zhivago in its portrait of powerful emotion that transforms two lives.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: River City Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 157966072X
• ISBN 13: 9781579660727
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 361