The widower's tale / Julia Glass.
A capacious family drama with as many brimming rooms and secret nooks and crannies as the historic Massachusetts home of Percy Darling, an acerbic patriarch, penitential widower, and former librarian at Harvard's Widener Library. Percy's coveted property includes a large pond and a spacious old barn, once his late wife's dance studio, now an upscale preschool. A mischievous and erudite curmudgeon, Percy only agrees to this intrusion in the hope that his floundering daughter, Clover, will finally secure a job that makes her happy. Not that she'll ever catch up to her sister, a legendary oncologist. Masterfully omniscient and spellbinding, National Book Award winner Glass creates glimmering descriptions, escalating conflicts, and intriguing characters, such as Percy's oldest grandson, Robert, a premed student at Harvard, and his ecowarrior roommate, Arturo; Sarah, a stained-glass artist and uninsured adoptive single mother; Ira, a preschool teacher who lost a previous position when parents objected to his being gay; and Celestino, an illegal Guatemalan immigrant with high ideals and ambitions.
Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, seventy-year-old Percy allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him to reexamine the choices he made after his wife's death.
Record details
- ISBN: 030737792X
- ISBN: 9780307377920
- Physical Description: 402 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
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| Subject: | Ecoterrorism > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Grandsons > Fiction. Nursery schools > Fiction. Preschools > Fiction. Widowers > Fiction. Widows > Fiction. New England > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Romance fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Gunn Memorial Public Library | F GLA (Text) | 34621200182189 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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