The Birthday Lunch - Clark, Joan
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From the bestselling author of Latitudes of Melt and An Audience of Chairs The Birthday Lunch is the story of one pivotal week in the life of a family facing a tragic loss, rich with dramatic tension and beautifully rendered. Free-spirited Lily has always played the peacemaker between her fierce, doting sister, Laverne, and her own loving, garrulous husband, Hal, as they competed for her attention. The competition has only grown worse since the three of them moved into a large house in the town of Sussex, New Brunswick. On Lily's 58th birthday, a steamy day in late June, Laverne feels she has…mehr

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From the bestselling author of Latitudes of Melt and An Audience of Chairs The Birthday Lunch is the story of one pivotal week in the life of a family facing a tragic loss, rich with dramatic tension and beautifully rendered. Free-spirited Lily has always played the peacemaker between her fierce, doting sister, Laverne, and her own loving, garrulous husband, Hal, as they competed for her attention. The competition has only grown worse since the three of them moved into a large house in the town of Sussex, New Brunswick. On Lily's 58th birthday, a steamy day in late June, Laverne feels she has bested Hal by winning her sister's company for a gourmet lunch, but it becomes a bitter and short-lived victory when the day's events take an unexpected and tragic turn. In The Birthday Lunch, Joan Clark explores the different ways each member of Lily's family confronts her shocking death: Hal's open sorrow, her daughter Claudia's reappraisal of her own life, her son Matt's determination to assign blame. And unforgettably, Laverne's eccentricity and isolation, her intensifying conflict with Hal, illuminates the brutal territory of accusation and regret. Compassionate and engrossing with a powerful sense of place, The Birthday Lunch is an extraordinary new novel from one of our most gifted storytellers.
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Autorenporträt
JOAN CLARK is the award-winning author of 16 books, including The Victory of Geraldine Gull (finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction); Eiriksdottir: A Tale of Dreams and Luck; Latitudes of Melt (a New York Times Notable Book); and An Audience of Chairs (winner of the Winterset Award), as well as two short-story collections and several novels for young adults. She received the Marian Engel Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada for her body of work in 1991, and was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2010. Born and raised in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, she now lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.