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All the News I Need (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625342621)
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Because of course she feels what he feels. . . . People their age natter along not copping to it but the awareness is billboarded all over their faces--a wavering, a hesitation, even those who used to crow and jab the air. The tablecloth of certainty, with all its sparkly settings, has been yanked, and not artfully. It's why people drink. All The News I Need probes the modern American response to inevitable, ancient riddles--of love and sex and mortality. Frances Ferguson is a lonely, sharp-tongued widow who lives in the wine country. Oliver Gaffney is a painfully shy gay man who guards a secret and lives out equally lonely days in San Francisco. Friends by default, Fran and Ollie nurse the deep anomie of loss and the creeping, animal betrayal of aging. Each loves routine but is anxious that life might be passing by. To crack open this stalemate, Fran insists the two travel together to Paris. The aftermath of their funny, bittersweet journey suggests those small changes, within our reach, that may help us save ourselves--somewhere toward the end.
Author: Joan Frank
ISBN-10: 1625342624
ISBN-13: 9781625342621
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2017
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Because of course she feels what he feels. . . . People their age natter along not copping to it but the awareness is billboarded all over their faces--a wavering, a hesitation, even those who used to crow and jab the air. The tablecloth of certainty, with all its sparkly settings, has been yanked, and not artfully. It's why people drink. All The News I Need probes the modern American response to inevitable, ancient riddles--of love and sex and mortality. Frances Ferguson is a lonely, sharp-tongued widow who lives in the wine country. Oliver Gaffney is a painfully shy gay man who guards a secret and lives out equally lonely days in San Francisco. Friends by default, Fran and Ollie nurse the deep anomie of loss and the creeping, animal betrayal of aging. Each loves routine but is anxious that life might be passing by. To crack open this stalemate, Fran insists the two travel together to Paris. The aftermath of their funny, bittersweet journey suggests those small changes, within our reach, that may help us save ourselves--somewhere toward the end.
Author: Joan Frank
ISBN-10: 1625342624
ISBN-13: 9781625342621
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2017
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
By Joan Frank
xJoan Frank is the author of five books of fiction and a collection of essays on the writing life. She lives in Northern California with her husband, playwright Bob Duxbury. Visit her at www.joanfrank.org.
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