Conscience : a novel / Alice Mattison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattison, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Married people--Fiction.

Married people.

Editors.

Protest movements.

United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Fiction.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Editors--United States--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

401 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.

Summary:

Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and each followed a distinct path into adulthood. Helen became a violent revolutionary. Val wrote a controversial book, Bright Morning of Pain, which was essentially a novelization of Helen's all-too-short but vibrant life. And Olive became an editor and writer, now comfortably settled with her husband, Griff, in modern-day New Haven. When Olive is asked to write an essay about Val's book, a work that attracts and repulses her in equal measure, doing so brings back to the forefront Olive and Griff's tangled histories and their complicated reflections on that tumultuous time in their young lives. Things only become more fraught when Griff borrows Olive's treasured first edition of the novel--and loses it. Then Griff's quirky and audacious new colleague, Jean Argos, finds the book and begins reading it, setting off a series of events that will introduce new conflicts, tragedies, and friendships into the precarious balance of Olive and Griff's once stable home.

ISBN:

9781681777894

1681777894

OCLC:

1033583696