More Than You Know: A Novel - Hardcover

Gutcheon, Beth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688174035 ISBN 13: 9780688174033

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2000

Synopsis

More Than You Know is a haunting novel that bridges two centuries, two mother-daughter relationships, and two tragic love stories. In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story by saying "Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about, and few have seen.' I've seen both, and I don't know how to tell you which is worse." Hannah has a passionate and painful story of true love and loss: the story of a ghost that appeared in her life, and in the life of Conary Crocker, the wild and appealing boy who loved her. Interwoven with their love story is a story of a marriage that took place in Dundee a hundred years earlier. As the parallels and differences between the two families are revealed, the reader comes to understand that someone in the nineteenth-century story has become the very unquiet soul haunting the twentieth. But not until the end do we learn (as Hannah never can) what force of mischance and personality has led to so much damage, and no one knows if such damage is ever at an end.

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Review:

"An exceptional novel -- thrilling, taut, austere: this is extraordinary writing of a tense, crystalline beauty."-- Shirley Hazzard"Completely engrossing and entertaining, replete with suspense, grace, and sympathy..."-- Sandra Scofield, "Newsday..".Gutcheon is a wonderful writer. "More Than You Know is a triumph, ghost and all."-- Reeve Lindbergh, "Boston Herald

About the Author:

Beth Gutcheon is the critically acclaimed author of the novels, The New Girls, Still Missing, Domestic Pleasures, Saying Grace, Five Fortunes, More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage, and Good-bye and Amen. She is the writer of several film scripts, including the Academy-Award nominee The Children of Theatre Street. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0688174035
• ISBN 13: 9780688174033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 269