num_pages: 189
description: The acclaimed poet and story writer David Huddle weaves a masterly portrait of two couples and their shared histories, desires, and secrets. Marcy, Allen, Uta, Jimmy -- each becomes the hero of his or her own story, as all mine the past for evidence of goodness.David Huddle moves with remarkable agility from the imagination of a precocious adolescent girl, to the fears of a man in midlife, to the longings of a wife whose reserve cloaks aching depths. Each of these convincing voices asks the questions central to all our What stories are so important that you'd never reveal them to another person in a million years? How do secrets come to define us, for better or for worse? Honest, accomplished, and wonderfully subtle, THE STORY OF A MILLION YEARS portrays the basic human desire to love and be loved unconditionally.
language: English
title: The Story Of A Million Years
titlecomplete: The Story Of A Million Years
genres: Fiction, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 198
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Library of Virginia Literary Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial