| Almost Heaven Contributor(s): Wiggins, Marianne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671038605 ISBN-13: 9780671038601 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Southern |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Virginia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before his thirtieth birthday Holden Garfield has already burned out as a journalist in war-torn Bosnia. Returning to the United States, he hopes the familiar sunshine and rolling hills of Virginia will help him put aside the horrors he reported. Instead he finds Melanie, his mentor's sister, who is institutionalized with a mysterious amnesia after her husband and son were killed five weeks earlier by a freak force of nature. Struck as if by lightning by her beauty, Holden sets out to help her reconstruct her past, and the pair is swept up in a passionate love affair -- one fighting to remember, the other struggling to forget. With this breakneck story of love and loss, Marianne Wiggins delivers a compelling novel that is a series of powerful metaphors for the curative forces of love as well as her own personal love letter to the American South. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wiggins, Marianne: - Marianne Wiggins is the author of seven books of fiction including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen. She has won an NEA grant, the Whiting Writers' Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and she was a National Book Award finalist in fiction for Evidence of Things Unseen. |