Sacred Time - by Ursula Hegi (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Evoking all the plenty and optimism of postwar America, this work by the bestselling author of "Stones from the River" spans three generations, taking readers from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The bestselling author of <i>Stones from the River</i> delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. <p/> In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imagination, where he longs for a stencil kit to decorate the windows like all the other kids on his street. Instead he gets a very different present: his uncle Malcolm's family. <p/> Malcolm is in jail for stealing -- once again -- from his latest new job, and Anthony's aunt and twin cousins settle into the Amedeos' fifth-floor walk-up. Sharing a room with girls is excruciating for Anthony, despite his affinity for the twins. But the real change in Anthony's life comes one evening when he causes the unthinkable to happen, changing each family member's life forever. <p/> Evoking all the plenty and optimism of postwar America, <i>Sacred Time</i> spans three generations, taking us from the Bronx of the 1950s to contemporary Brooklyn. Keenly observing the dark side of family -- and its gracefulness -- Hegi has outdone herself with this captivating novel about childhood's tenderness and the landscape of loneliness. Ultimately she reveals how the transforming power of a singular event can reverberate through a family for generations. With gravity and poise, Hegi turns her astute yet forgiving eye on the essential frailty and dignity of the human condition in this elegant and fast-paced novel.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Simon Read, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <i>Sacred Time</i> is an ambitious piece of writing.<br><br>Valerie Sayers, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <i>Sacred Time</i> offers its own version of hope in the face of despair, of truth in a new era of secrecy and evasion.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ursula Hegi</b> is the author of <i>The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time</i>, <i>Hotel of the Saints</i>, <i>The Vision of Emma Blau</i>, <i>Tearing the Silence</i>, <i>Salt Dancers</i>, <i>Stones from the River</i>, <i>Floating in My Mother's Palm</i>, <i>Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories</i>, <i>Intrusions</i>, and <i>Trudi & Pia</i>. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.
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