Evening
Susan Minot
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<p>With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("<b>Monkeys</b> takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in language that is sensual and commanding, mesmerizing in its vitality and intelligence. Now, with Evening, she gives us her most ambitious novel, a work of surpassing beauty. During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a...</p>