The mourners' bench : a novel / Susan Dodd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodd, Susan M., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--North Carolina--Dismal Swamp--Fiction.

Teachers.

North Carolina.

Terminally ill--North Carolina--Dismal Swamp--Fiction.

Terminally ill.

Brain--Tumors--North Carolina--Dismal Swamp--Fiction.

Brain.

Brain--Tumors.

Dollmakers--North Carolina--Dismal Swamp--Fiction.

Dollmakers.

Suicide--North Carolina--Dismal Swamp--Fiction.

Suicide.

Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--Fiction.

Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Love stories.

Physical Description:

270 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow and Co., [1998]

Summary:

Thirty-year-old Leandra leads a solitary existence on an island in North Carolina, earning a modest living by fixing broken dolls. But her quiet, isolated life takes an unexpected turn when her sister's husband, Wim, appears, a man she has not seen for ten years, since their urgent love affair ended in tragedy. Wim, now dying of cancer, feels the need to see Leandra one last time.

In alternating, distinctly American voices -- one the twang of a New England Yankee, the other a gentle Southern drawl -- these two characters tell a wistful, wonderfully evoked story, from their first meeting, when Leandra was summoned to Boston to care for her pregnant, depressed sister, to the growing passion that led them beyond common sense and caution. As the narrative alternates between past and present, Leandra and Wim lay claim to the love they've denied themselves and each other.

ISBN:

0688157998

OCLC:

38106859