The Setting of the Sun - Couverture souple

McAvoy, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0615604617 ISBN 13 : 9780615604619

Editeur : Syntax and Style, 2012

Synopsis

The Setting of the Sun takes place in a single day, as Anne (who is 95 years old) attends the wake, funeral and burial of her husband, her one true love, Tom. With tenderness, her daughter Maggie helps Anne with her confusion and sadness as her mind drifts between the past and present. Throughout the day, events elicit in Anne’s mind memories of her childhood and her life with Tom in the mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and she relives wonderful moments of her sisterly love with her best friend, Annie. Meanwhile, Maggie grieves for her father while realizing that her mother, too, will soon pass on. After a family gathering, Anne returns home to face life without Tom. Allusions to a poem Anne wrote to Tom years earlier are sprinkled throughout the story. At the end of the novel is the poem - titled "The Setting of the Sun" - in which Anne expresses with simple eloquence the essence of true love -- and love’s power over death is realized. The Setting of the Sun will resonate with elders as well as those who are caring for them. Through Anne, The Setting of the Sun addresses with sensitivity and frankness what it feels like to be very old, and to be looking death straight in the eye.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary McAvoy lives in Massachusetts where she is busy writing in her favorite theme, the profound influence of love. In her books, Mary explores love's driving impact on an individual's life (Love's Compass), love's power over death (The Setting of the Sun), the infectious nature of love (Love, Topaz) and the devastating ripple effect of a single moment without love (as yet, untitled). Love, Topaz will be released in 2013. Mary's first full-length novel, it is the delightful story of a young writer, Jerome, and his muse (and love), Topaz, who he sneaks into a writers retreat - resulting in much excitement and tension as the infections nature of the young couple's love begins to seep from their room and into the hearts and lives of the guests of the writer's retreat and the residents of the fictitious northern Virginia village of Weeping Willow, where the story takes place. Mary's second full-length novel, due for publication in 2014, is a darker story that shows the devastating impact on the psyches and hearts of its characters that is the result of one moment absent of love.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Syntax and Style
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0615604617
• ISBN 13: 9780615604619
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
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