Authors: Susan Minot, Kathryn Walker
ISBN-13: 9780739344095, ISBN-10: 0739344099
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
Date Published: November 2007
Edition: Abridged
Susan Minot's first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and received the Prix Femina Étranger in France. She is the author of Rapture, Lust & Other Stories, Folly, Evening, and Poems 4 A.M., and wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She lives on an island in Maine.
With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("Monkeys takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in language that is sensual and commanding, mesmerizing in its vitality and intelligence. Now, with Evening, she gives us her most ambitious novel, a work of surpassing beauty. 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...
An absorbing drama. . . Minot writes with quiet perceptiveness and grace, pulling the reader into Ann's deathbed reverie. -- Elle
PART ONE | |
1. The Canopy | 3 |
PART TWO | |
2. The Balsam Pillow | 21 |
3. The Yellow Suitcase | 35 |
4. Torches | 47 |
5. The Rock Garden | 65 |
6. The Sail Closet | 79 |
7. A Pale Bay | 95 |
PART THREE | |
8. Fog | 121 |
9. Report from Nurse Brown | 143 |
PART FOUR | |
10. The Venetian Chandelier | 155 |
11. Fastening the Suspender | 171 |
12. The Wedding Night | 187 |
13. The Plunge | 203 |
14. Wake Up Paris | 217 |
15. Swim of the Second Heart | 237 |
PART FIVE | |
16. Evening | 253 |