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The House On Eccles Road

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Binding: Hardcover
List Price: $35.00
Our Price: $4.05 CAD
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ISBN: 9781555973681
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Page Count: 221
Publication Date: 1/1/2002
Size: 8.52" l x 5.45" w x 0.98"
Series: N/A

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What if Molly took center stage in James Joyce's "Ulysses? What if she lived in suburban America? It is June 16, 1999, in Dublin, Ohio, and Molly wanders through her empty day while her husband, Leo, tends to a strict and busy professor's schedule. On the surface of her thoughts, Molly wonders: Will he remember their anniversary? And how many hints should she give him? As Molly and Leo circle each other throughout the day, Judith Kitchen illuminates the scope of Leo and Molly's life together detail by detail. Molly is offended by the hot June day, hums Irish tunes, considers an old love; Leo thinks about his star pupil, young girls at the tennis court, his aging father. Both, if differently, mourn the loss of their four-year-old son eight years ago. In this momentous novel, Kitchen weaves these and other voices into the tapestry of a single day, an ordinary day in the lives of ordinary people, yet a day that, by gathering the threads of all they have been, might change their lives forever. Strange, Molly was thinking, how we go through our lives on remote control. But as she drives toward town, a quick glance at a fatal car accident, which has slowed traffic to an agonizing crawl, brings her to the precipice.

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