And the Dark Sacred Night - Softcover

Julia Glass

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307456110 ISBN 13: 9780307456113

Publisher: Anchor Books, 2015

Synopsis

Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to support, a mortgage to pay, and a frustrated wife who insists that, to move forward, Kit must first confront a crucial mystery about his past. Born to a single teenage mother, he has never known the identity of his biological father.

Kit's search begins with his onetime stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman, and ultimately leads him to Fenno McLeod, the beloved protagonist of Glass's award-winning novel Three Junes. Immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from Vermont to the tip of Cape Cod, And the Dark Sacred Night is an unforgettable novel about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the risks we take when we face down the shadows of our past.

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Review:

"An elegant and moving novel." --The New Yorker

"A tender, insightful, and winning exploration of the modern family and the infinite number of shapes it can take." --People

"Sophisticated and surprising. . . . Luminous." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The only regret you'll have at the end of this particular story is that it's over." --Entertainment Weekly

"Breathtaking. . . . Heartfelt. . . . What makes this novel so fresh is its notion that the need to know where we come from isn't limited to our formative years. And that all buried secrets are bittersweet when revealed." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"An exquisitely detailed novel." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"An engrossing read." --Newsday

"This memento mori is as much about the teeming, glad business of life as it is about grief--'the bright blessed day, ' as the Louis Armstrong song puts it, as well as the dark sacred night." --The Washington Post

"Glass' prose is so lovely and filled with felicitous phrases and insights that when she orchestrates a family reunion, the reader is apt to just follow along like Kit, knowing the music is bound to enthrall." --The Dallas Morning News

"The delight of reading Julia Glass turns out to be the connections we make with her generous characters, who become as endearing--and exasperating--as the people we love in real life." --The Miami Herald

"Wretched and wonderful--indeed, dark yet sacred." --BookPage

"Glass explores the pain of family secrets, the importance of identity, and the ultimate meaning of family. . . . [A] lovely, highly readable, and thought-provoking novel." --Booklist (starred)

About the Author:

Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction; The Whole World Over; I See You Everywhere, winner of the 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award; and The Widower's Tale. Her essays have been widely anthologized. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Glass also teaches fiction writing, most frequently at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0307456110
• ISBN 13: 9780307456113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416