| Fireworks Contributor(s): Winthrop, Elizabeth Hartley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400096979 ISBN-13: 9781400096978 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: In an eviscerating comic portrait of suburban despair, Winthrops debut novel captures the mysterious seasons of a mans inner and outer life--marriage, grief, existential confusion, and finally, love--and the human spirits insistent and sometimes incongruous motion toward grace. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005049445 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.3" W x 7.96" (0.52 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hollis Clayton is in trouble. His wife has decamped for the summer, leaving him to pursue his increasingly overwhelming compulsions: drinking; spying on neighbors; worrying about the fate of an abducted local girl; avoiding his editor, who is on the verge of rejecting his new collection of stories; and confronting as obliquely as possible the recent death of his young son. Meanwhile, he is spending more time with Jack Daniels and a stubbornly persistent stray dog than with anyone else, including his girlfriend Marissa, who has either abandoned him or been abandoned by him, he's not sure which. A tender and comic portrait of suburban despair, Fireworks details the events of one strange summer in which a man's troubled soul hangs in the balance. In her perceptive exploration of Hollis's disintegrating life, Elizabeth Winthrop gives us an unforgettably powerful portrait of an anguished man, one who is both endearingly flawed and vividly real. |