In the Gloaming (Story)

Beschreibung

CHOSEN AS A BEST SHORT STORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY BY JOHN UPDIKE<BR> <BR> THE BASIS FOR THE AWARD-WINNING HBO FILM FEATURING GLENN CLOSE AND ROBERT SEAN LEONARD<BR> <BR> Now in a stand-alone edition, Alice Elliott Dark’s celebrated and masterful work of literary short fiction, In the Gloaming depicts a loving mother, Janet, caring for her adult son, Laird, in the last months of his life during the early AIDS era. <BR><BR>The gloaming is the hour of changing light at dawn or dusk, when the world is as purple as the Scottish Highlands on a summer night.

As mother and son sit together in the gathering darkness, a powerfully intimate conversation unfolds between them that shifts their understanding of each other and gives them strength for their final farewell.<BR> <BR> In austerely beautiful prose, Dark lays bare the emotional turmoil and deep familial bonds between her characters, revealing the ache of adoration and devotion that so poignantly marks our inner lives.<BR> <BR> With a new afterword from the author, this special stand-alone edition of In the Gloaming is a part of the Scribner Shorts program.

Angaben vom Händler.