The years
Subtitle: a novel
By: Nicholas Delbanco
Contributors: Delbanco, Nicholas
Publisher: Little A
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781477827321
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Older people; Roman; Man-woman relationships; Amerikanisches Englisch; Fiction
Description: "The Years is about the passage of time: from youth to middle age to the winter of life. Forty years after their intense but doomed college romance, Lawrence and Hermia meet again on a Mediterranean cruise. They fall in love even more deeply, but being in their sixties, with plenty of baggage, they wonder if marriage is the right move. When Lawrence visits Hermia's home on Cape Cod, she has one request: "Please stay." What happens when he does fills the rest of this wise and unforgettable novel. With enormous sympathy and keen insight, Nicholas Delbanco follows Hermia and Lawrence through their years together and apart, in Los Angeles and New York, Michigan and Massachusetts, in frailness and in health. Old scores are settled; old wounds healed. A stunning, wise book about first and final love, The Years addresses the irrevocable end of life, and what ultimately endures."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "Book One of this novel, in a different form, was published as Spring and Fall by Grand Central Publishing, New York, in 2006"--Page [373].