The Year That Follows

Zusatztext “[A] tender novel about the powerful! complicated ties of family.” — The Boston Globe “Life-affirming … stirring! poignant! and quietly profound.” —Wally Lamb! author of The Hour I First Believed “I couldn’t put Scott Lasser’s The Year That Follows down…. One of the best novels about loss I’ve ever read.” —Anita Shreve! author The Pilot’s Wife   “Moving…. I won’t reveal the surprising ending to this touching novel! but … it manages to focus on the possibly redemptive aspects of 9/11 without being in any way saccharine or overdone.” —David Milofsky! The Denver Post   “A rich! complex tribute to the forces that bind families together and too often tear them apart.” — Bloomberg News “Lasser’s spare! evocative prose lends grace to this moving tale of the enduring bonds of family that even tragedy can’t diminish.” — The Free Lance-Star   “Sensational. . . . Lasser’s characters are life-like! and his fluid language and storytelling don’t prevent him from examining poignant emotional truths.” — The Aspen Times   “Will stay on the bookshelf for years.” —Daily Candy   “With a surprise twist! this reflective novel is sure to spark lively discussion.” — The Missourian   “Getting to know Lasser’s complex and affecting characters is a profound pleasure! as is his radiant understanding of intimate relationships between parents and children and men and women. ” — Booklist (starred review)   “A taut! masterfully controlled and profoundly moving novel. . . . A novel with barely a wasted word or an emotion that doesn’t ring true.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   “There are few books this reviewer is compelled to finish in one sitting! and this was one of them.” —Henry Bankhead! Library Journal   “A novel to savor! remember! to think about and pass along to a friend.” — Hudson Valley News Informationen zum Autor Scott Lasser is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, and the Wharton School. His novels include Battle Creek and All I Could Get . A native of Detroit, he lives with his family in Aspen, Colorado. Klappentext Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York! just a day after he told her that he thought he had a son. Filled with determination! she sets off on a search for the orphaned boy! but it's interrupted when she gets a surprise call from her father. Sam is eighty and carrying the weight of a secret that he has kept from Cat all her life-and one that threatens the family she is attempting to build. Superbly realized and deeply profound! The Year That Follows explores the complexities of love and the bonds that even death is powerless to diminish. Leseprobe I I’m dead, Sam thinks. Simple as that. For months they’d been warned of kamikaze attacks and, initially, nothing happened. Then one day he ran down from the bridge, heard the batteries open fire and the whine of an approaching plane. He saw it, recognized the charcoal silhouette against the milky sky. A Zero. It came in low, its wings toggling through the antiaircraft blasts till it veered and disappeared behind the starboard railing.He wakes and looks about, at the bare walls of his bedroom, then grabs a fistful of sheet and takes a moment to get his bearings. A dream. The dream. The same damn dream these fifty-seven years, the memory burned so deep that most nights his mind can’t avoid it. Always he wakes terrified, but comforted, too. There’s the terror, but it’s the same terror.Sam sits up, playing out the history, a memory now, a waking dream and just as real. He came to on a hospital ship. He learned that the Japanese pilot missed his destroyer but crashed into the sea close enough to shake the ship like a bath toy. Twelve men went overbo...

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• Autori: Scott Lasser
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.07.2010
• EAN: 9780307456380
• ISBN: 978-0-307-45638-0
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 128 mm x 202 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi