The Story of a Million Years (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618082339)

The acclaimed poet and story writer David Huddle weaves a masterly portrait of two couples and their shared histories, desires, and secrets. Marcy, Allen, Uta, Jimmy -- each becomes the hero of his or her own story, as all mine the past for evidence of goodness.
David Huddle moves with remarkable agility from the imagination of a precocious adolescent girl, to the fears of a man in midlife, to the longings of a wife whose reserve cloaks aching depths. Each of these convincing voices asks the questions central to all our lives: What stories are so important that you'd never reveal them to another person in a million years? How do secrets come to define us, for better or for worse? Honest, accomplished, and wonderfully subtle, THE STORY OF A MILLION YEARS portrays the basic human desire to love and be loved unconditionally.

Author: David Huddle
ISBN-10: 0618082336
ISBN-13: 9780618082339
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2000
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.30w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/22/2000 pg. 69
New York Times 01/07/2001 pg. 28