He also engages larger issues of how liberals and conservatives define themselves, and considers those moments when life transcends all their arguments. New York Times Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: A 'dazzling' novel about the tumultuous relationship of two elderly siblings ( Los Angeles Times ). Gardner uses the turbulent siblings as a stepping-off point from which he expands upon the lives of their extended families, and Of the family that spawned these bizarre, sad, and stubborn people. Locks Sally up in her room with the trashy “blockbuster” novel that has consumed her (and only apples to eat), the novel-within-the-novel becomes an echo chamber providing glimpses into the history The feud between an old man and his sister reenacts the American. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of October Light.
Polar opposites in nearly every way, their clash of values turns a bitter corner when the exacting and resolute James takes a shotgun to his sister’s color television set. Complete summary of John Gardner's October Light. The penniless widow of a once-wealthy dentist, Sally Abbot now lives in the Vermont farmhouse of her older brother, seventy-two-year-old October Light is one of John Gardner’s masterworks. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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