Afterwards : a novel / Gina Berriault.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berriault, Gina.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Conference of victims

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide victims--Fiction.

Suicide victims.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

143 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Counterpoint paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, 1998.

Summary:

Hal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife, a supportive family, a devoted mother. Friendly, intelligent, successful, he is a man on the rise - until he is caught in an affair with a high school girl and commits suicide. On election day the reporters have forgotten him, and the radio doesn't mention his name. Around Hal's hometown, however, a handful of people continue lives that will be forever haunted by his memory. In Afterwards (previously published as Conference of Victims), Gina Berriault charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness, showing how one terrible act can possess a family.

Notes:

"Earlier versions of this novel were published under the title Conference of victims, in 1962 by Atheneum and in 1985 by North Point Press"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

1887178740

9781887178747

OCLC:

38125925