What you have left : a novel / Will Allison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Will.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class families--Fiction.

Working class families.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

210 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, [2007]

Summary:

In What You Have Left, Will Allison's powerful and beautifully written debut novel, the members of an unconventional working-class Southern family struggle to be their best selves--a good husband, a responsible parent, a loving granddaughter--and, failing that, find ways to carry on. Suffused with sly humor, a knowing acceptance of human flaws, and a wise and warm sense of hope, this novel offers a profound and heartwarming multigenerational portrait. From his ability to convey a complicated and utterly true set of emotions in a single detail to his pitch-perfect and frequently very funny dialogue, Allison's prose is brilliant and plainspoken. Will Allison is a gifted observer of the emotional legacies handed down from parent to child, of the ways history repeats itself from generation to generation, and of how two people can experience the same events completely differently. What You Have Left brims with rich, specific lives that make for a universally appealing read.

ISBN:

9781416541394

141654139X

OCLC:

76967147

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