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Evening / Susan Minot.

Summary:

During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a fever-dream. Evening unfolds in the rushlight of that memory, as Ann relives those three vivid days on the New England coast, with motorboats buzzing and bands playing in the night, and the devastating tragedy that followed a spectacular wedding. Here, in the surge of hope and possibility that coursed through her at twenty-five--in a singular time of complete surrender--Ann discovers the highest point of her life.

Record details

ISBN: 9780375400377
ISBN: 0375400370
ISBN: 9780375700262
ISBN: 0375700269
ISBN: 9780307387127
ISBN: 0307387127
Physical Description: 264 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Knopf : ©1998.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The Canopy -- The Balsam Pillow -- The Yellow Suitcase -- Torches -- The Rock Garden -- The Sail Closet -- A Pale Bay -- Fog -- Report from Nurse Brown -- The Venetian Chandelier -- Fastening the Suspender -- The Wedding Night -- The Plunge -- Wake Up Paris -- Swim of the Second Heart -- Evening.