num_pages: 350
description:  Where polite society weighs heavily against extramarital dalliances why do some people insist on acting against their own best interests? Ah the complexity of the human heart! Virginia Sorensen seems to be saying in this dark novel about a 1940s Utah housewife Kate and a young violin maker Peter a man who elicits from her the first shock of overpowering attractions. Considering the circumstances of Kates rural life her marriage to an older man and the trouble she has raising two stepchildren readers may forgive her errant desires. Yet her husband has been good to her and the new object of her eye has a devoted wife and a handicapped son. So why should these two decent if all-too-human people be struck by this other side of human passion? Ultimately Kate decides to abandon her Utah home and her adopted family rather than risk disruption to Peters household. However decades later she realizes her error and embarks on a pilgrimage back home to see her Peter once more to determine finally what meaning this romantic interlude held for her.Virginia Sorensen was born in Provo Utah and lived much of her adult life in Morocco and Florida with her husband British novelist Alec Waugh. She is the distinguished author of eight novels (see for instance A Little Lower than the Angels) a collection of short stories (Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of a Mormon Childhood) and as many childrens books; and winner of the Newberry Medal an O. Henry award and two Guggenheim fellowships. She spent a lifetime telling stories many of which she offered to her Mormon community as their own. Literary critics have hailed her as Utahs First Lady of Letters. She died in 1991.
language: English
title: The Evening and the Morning
publisher: Signature Books