And The Dark Sacred Night

NY: Pantheon Books, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Very Good-Collectible/Near Fine. FIRST PRINTING. Dk blue spine w/silver foil letters over blue boards. Auhtor photo c Dennis Cowley. DJ photo Sigeru Inami. Dj Joan Wong. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. X-library w/graphics, unclipped ($26.95), date on ffep. Back side of mylar pasted to inside boards. Secure ship w/track #. Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to help support, a mortgage to pay—and a frustrated wife, who is certain that more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died of AIDS in Glass's first novel, Three Junes). She and her husband are the only ones who know the full story of an accident whose repercussions spread even further when Jasper introduces Lucinda to Kit. Immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from Vermont to the tip of Cape Cod, Glass weaves together the lives of Kit, Jasper, Lucinda and ultimately, Fenno McLeod, the beloved protagonist of Three Junes (now in his sixties). An unforgettable novel about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the surprisingly mutable meaning of family.