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Title: Afterwards PB
Author: Gina Berriault
ISBN: 1887178740
Publisher: Perseus Books
Published: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 143
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Hal Costigan is the kind of man people envy. A candidate for Congress, he has a loving wife, a supportive family, a devoted mother. He is a man on the rise--until he is caught in an affair with a high-school girl and commits suicide, leaving a family whose futures are irrevocably changed by his act. His mother, sister, brother, and lover are haunted by his memory and cannot find consolation in each other. In Afterwards, Gina Berriault charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness and shows us how one terrible act can bind and possess a family forever. 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 doesnt mention his name. Around Hals hometown, however, a handful of people continue lives that will be forever haunted by his memory. Mother, sister, brother, lover--their futures all irrevocably changed by his death--cannot find consolation in each other and seek it elsewhere. In Afterwards (previo
Author: Gina Berriault
ISBN: 1887178740
Publisher: Perseus Books
Published: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 143
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Hal Costigan is the kind of man people envy. A candidate for Congress, he has a loving wife, a supportive family, a devoted mother. He is a man on the rise--until he is caught in an affair with a high-school girl and commits suicide, leaving a family whose futures are irrevocably changed by his act. His mother, sister, brother, and lover are haunted by his memory and cannot find consolation in each other. In Afterwards, Gina Berriault charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness and shows us how one terrible act can bind and possess a family forever. 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 doesnt mention his name. Around Hals hometown, however, a handful of people continue lives that will be forever haunted by his memory. Mother, sister, brother, lover--their futures all irrevocably changed by his death--cannot find consolation in each other and seek it elsewhere. In Afterwards (previo
