by Lily Tuck (Author)
A "captivating" portrait of a long marriage and a meditation on how chance can affect life from the National Book Award winner (The Washington Post).
"His hand is growing cold, still she holds it" is how this novel that contemplates love, after a husband's sudden death, begins.
This riveting and deeply moving story unfolds over a single night, as Nina, numb with grief, sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. There, she recalls the defining moments of their forty-three-year-long union, beginning with their meeting in Paris. She is an artist, he a mathematician-a collision of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate love.
As Nina revisits select memories--real and imagined--Lily Tuck reveals the intimacies, dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that shaped the couple's life together.
Author Biography
Born in Paris, Lily Tuck is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up, The Woman Who Walked on Water, Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award. She is also the author of the biography, Woman of Rome, A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, and are collected in Limbo, or Other Places I Have Lived. She divides her time between Maine and New York City.
Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: September 11, 2012
