The end of the day

"A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years. An older man who has traveled from Manhattan to meet his newborn granddaughter collapses in a hotel lobby in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A sixty-seven-year-old tax...

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Main Author: Clegg, Bill (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scout Press, 2020.
Edition:First Scout Press hardcover edition.
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Summary:"A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years. An older man who has traveled from Manhattan to meet his newborn granddaughter collapses in a hotel lobby in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past. Seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century old secrets begin to surface in Bill Clegg's second novel. At its heart, The End of the Day is about the phenomenon of female friendship, its force and its breaking points, as well its most shaping influences-family, class, age, and power"--
Physical Description:310 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781476798202
1476798206
9781476798219
1476798214
Author Notes:Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days . The author of the novels Did You Ever Have a Family and The End of the Day , he has written for the New York Times , Lapham's Quarterly , New York magazine, The Guardian , and Harper's Bazaar .