University Press of Mississippi
A Lifetime Burning
Product Code:
9781617036019
ISBN13:
9781617036019
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$33.32
A Lifetime Burning
$33.32
So spontaneous is the writing in A Lifetime Burning, one might believe these are indeed words of a woman desperately trying to understand what has happened to her life, beginning with the fact that her husband has stopped sleeping with her. Why? Is there a rival--perhaps "The Toad," the unattractive housewife next door--or someone else, who will completely surprise the reader, as do many of the events of the protagonist's story? At age sixty-two, Corinne must grapple with the most painful truth that her lifelong passion--which is anyone's passion, to love and be loved, body and soul--could burn unquenched forever. Her imaginative narrative even when she is lying is as revealing as bedrock truth. A Lifetime Burning is as real as life itself--a novel shimmering and vital and recognizably true. Gripping, smart, suspenseful, and at times, wonderfully witty, Douglas's widely acclaimed book forms a searching and searing record of love, anger, confession, and discovery.
| Author: Ellen Douglas |
| Publisher: University Press of Mississippi |
| Publication Date: Sep 25, 2012 |
| Number of Pages: 224 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1617036013 |
| ISBN-13: 9781617036019 |
