In pinelight
Subtitle: a novel
By: Thomas Rayfiel
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780810152366
Subjects: Older men; Fiction
Description: As the elderly hero of Thomas Rayfiel's daring new novel, In Pinelight, sits in an old folks' home responding to the questions of an unseen interrogator, the fragments he supplies form the portrait of a man's life in upstate New York. Losses, loves, destructive family relationships, sexual entanglements, and moments of mystical awareness filter through the seeming minutiae of small-town gossip to confront the reader with their cumulative power.