What you have left: a novel
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York : Free Press, c2007.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
210 pages ; 22 cm.
Lexile measure:
1010L
Status:
Description
What You Have Left is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and, most of all, longing. In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie tells her he just needs a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again -- "time I spent wondering what I'd done to make him leave," she says, "and what I could do to make him come back." What You Have Left is about a father and daughter trying to make their way back to one another across decades of uncertainty and ambivalence -- all the while hoping to discover that what they have left is worth salvaging. It's also the story of a grandfather bent on suicide, a pioneering female NASCAR driver, a heartbroken amnesiac, a video poker junkie, and assorted other liars, cheaters, and lovers who, despite their best intentions, never quite live up to their own expectations. Are we doomed to repeat our parents' mistakes? Can lies save love instead of destroying it? Is letting go the same as giving up? Shot through with sly humor and a knowing sympathy for human weakness, What You Have Left takes up these and other questions as it examines the weight of history, the nature of loss, and the possibility of forgiveness. Making use of bold shifts in viewpoint and time, Allison proves a brilliant observer of the emotional legacies handed down from parent to child and the ways loss defines us. This stunning debut brims with an affection for humanity exactly as it is -- in all its ignorance and awareness, its swagger and humility, its despair and hope.
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Status
Meriden Adult Fiction
FIC ALLISON
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Other Subjects
More Details
Street Date:
0706
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781416541394, 141654139X
Lexile measure:
1010
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APA Citation (style guide)
Allison, W. (2007). What you have left: a novel. New York, Free Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Allison, Will. 2007. What You Have Left: A Novel. New York, Free Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Allison, Will, What You Have Left: A Novel. New York, Free Press, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Allison, Will. What You Have Left: A Novel. New York, Free Press, 2007.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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