Winter Journey

Colegate, Isabel

ISBN 10: 1582432503 / ISBN 13: 9781582432502

Editore: Counterpoint, 2002

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00089541224

Riassunto:

A fierce, funny, unsentimental book about growing older, about grace and forgiveness, and about hope for a world we must too soon leave behind.

His wild years behind him, Alfred Ashby, a celebrated photographer now in his late fifties, has returned to where he was raised:, the family farm in rural England. The old house in the valley, little changed by the years, provides him an agreeable darkroom, necessary solitude, and a link to a more tranquil past.

His reverie is broken by a January visit from his headstrong older sister, Edith, a former MP and the survivor of two disastrous marriages. To her, Alfred's bachelor life is undesirable, his work obsessive and disturbing. She has plans for Alfred, for the farm and for the future, plans she hopes will help the two of them mend their frayed relationship and forget their past sorrows, past mistakes. In the course of their long winter visit, this infinitely complicated brother and sister confront their deepest selves and retrace the tangled paths their lives have taken.

Informazioni sull?autore: Isabel Colegate is the author of twelve novels, a collection of short stories, and A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses. She lives near Bath, England.

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Titolo: Winter Journey
Casa editrice: Counterpoint
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good