"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Henry Dorn has spent years building a family, but it only takes a single afternoon for it to fall apart. The woman with whom he fell in love in the first blush of youth, who has been his perfect mate through a lively young marriage ripened by the raising of three children, has been lost. The car wreck that killed her also took their son Robert, a veteran of the Great War whose bitterness and addiction to morphine had slowly been driving him and Henry apart. Restless, broken, questing but unsure for what, Henry buys a steamer ticket for Amsterdam, planning to research his family history and start life anew. But nothing could have prepared him for the young woman he meets on the ship: the fiery, self-sufficient Lydia Pearce, one of a new generation of women. At first Henry does not know what to make of Lydia but, before long, they have fallen into an affair of a depth and significance for which neither was prepared. And just as quickly as he was robbed of Olivia, Henry is faced with the gift of new possibilities--and the need to reconcile them with those already lost.
From a hardscrabble Nova Scotia fishing town, to a women's college in New York, to a 1920s Europe alive with the unbuttoning of sexuality but scarred by war, After You've Gone is a gorgeous tale spanning several pivotal decades in American life, and an unforgettable portrait of one man and the extraordinary women he loved.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
FREE
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 0.65. Seller Inventory # bk0802144551xvz189zvxnew
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 6648371-n
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 9780802144553
Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. After You've Gone 0.55. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780802144553
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 0.65. Seller Inventory # 353-0802144551-new
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2416190193664
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9780802144553
Book Description Condition: New. . Seller Inventory # 52GZZZ00XCG2_ns
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. After Youve Gone in paperback, it is a moving, sublime love story set in the cataclysmic decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Henry Dorn has spent years building a family, but it only takes a single afternoon for it to fall apart. Abruptly widowed of the love of his life, Henry buys a steamer ticket for Amsterdam, the city of his heritage, hoping to start life anew. But nothing could have prepared him for the woman he meets on the ship: the fiery, self-sufficient Lydia Pearce, one of a new generation of women. Before long the two have fallen into an affair of a depth and significance for which neither was prepared. But the memory of his wife and the vexed relationship he had with their son haunt Henry in the midst of his new beginning. Jeffrey Lent is one of our finest novelists, and After Youve Gone delivers a tale that beautifully charts the sweep of a life, the grim reach of a war, and the discoveryand lossof life-defining love From a hardscrabble Nova Scotia fishing town to a women's college in New York to a 1920's Europe alive with the unbuttoning of sexuality but scarred by war, "After You've Gone" is a gorgeous tale spanning several pivotal decades in American life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780802144553
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Brand New Copy. Seller Inventory # BBB_new0802144551