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Jan 1, 1999 · With eloquence and compassion, Jenny Offill weaves a luminous story of a wounded family and of a young girl yearning to understand the difference between fiction, fact, and hope. A novel of vibrant imagination and searing intelligence, Last Things is a stunning literary achievement.
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Mar 17, 2015 · If ‘last things’ means things that will last, then Offill’s novel is one of them.” —The New York Times Book Review“Beautiful. . . . A gently funny tragedy about childhood and madness. . . . Pokes at the boundaries between reason and imagination.” —Newsday“Sparse, elegant, and inviting. . . .
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- Vintage
- $10.39
Last Things is the eleventh and final installment of C. P. Snow's series of novels Strangers and Brothers. Plot synopsis. Lewis Eliot, now sixty, experiences a medical condition that requires surgery. After a near fatal cardiac arrest, Eliot confronts his past life as well as reconciliation with his son Charles. Reception
Mar 17, 2015 · To eight-year-old Grace Davitt, the world is full of strange wonders. Through the eyes of her mother, Anna—an ornithologist who speaks five languages—their small lakeside town in...
- Jenny Offill
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015
- reprint
- Last ThingsVintage Contemporaries
With eloquence and compassion, Jenny Offill weaves a luminous story of a wounded family and of a young girl yearning to understand the difference between fiction, fact, and hope. A novel of vibrant imagination and searing intelligence, Last Things is a stunning literary achievement.
- Paperback
May 7, 2019 · Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. New York Times–bestselling author Jacqueline West captivates readers with a dark, hypnotic story about the cost of talent—and the evil that lurks just out of sight. Fans of Holly Black and Victoria Schwab will be mesmerized by this gorgeous, magnetic novel.
- Jacqueline West
May 21, 2019 · With Last Things, Jacqueline West recasts Robert Johnson, the legendary blues musician who supposedly sold his soul to the devil, as a teen metal fan in northern Minnesota. She adds another layer with Thea, who’s always in the shadows, watching.
