Mourning Light - Softcover

Richard Goodkin (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299338649 ISBN 13: 9780299338640

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022

Synopsis

Set in Madison, Wisconsin, and New Haven, Connecticut, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, Mourning Light is a semi-autobiographical love story. Our narrator, Reb (so named by his mother because of her love of the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca), is hounded by guilt over the death of his lover, Anthony, which took place on the same day Reb first met the handsome yet enigmatic Eric. Once Reb becomes convinced that Anthony has sent him a cryptic message from beyond the grave, he becomes obsessed with figuring out what it could mean.
 
Told in a series of flashbacks and remembrances, the novel concludes with a whirlwind of revelations that both complicate and resolve Reb’s view of his world and his lover.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Goodkin is a professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published five monographs on seventeenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century French literature and a historical novel, written in French, about MoliÈre’s mistress and collaborator, Madeleine BÉjart.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299338649
• ISBN 13: 9780299338640
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192