A Lifetime Burning

A Lifetime Burning

by Ellen Douglas
A Lifetime Burning

A Lifetime Burning

by Ellen Douglas

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Overview

So spontaneous is the writing in A Lifetime Burning, one might believe these are indeed words of a woman desperately trying to understand what has happened to her life, beginning with the fact that her husband has stopped sleeping with her.

Why? Is there a rival--perhaps "The Toad," the unattractive housewife next door--or someone else, who will completely surprise the reader, as do many of the events of the protagonist's story? At age sixty-two, Corinne must grapple with the most painful truth that her lifelong passion--which is anyone's passion, to love and be loved, body and soul--could burn unquenched forever. Her imaginative narrative even when she is lying is as revealing as bedrock truth. A Lifetime Burning is as real as life itself--a novel shimmering and vital and recognizably true. Gripping, smart, suspenseful, and at times, wonderfully witty, Douglas's widely acclaimed book forms a searching and searing record of love, anger, confession, and discovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781617036019
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 09/19/2012
Series: Banner Books Series
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 218
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ellen Douglas is the author of numerous novels and a collection of essays, Witnessing. She is the recipient of the 2000 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

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