The End of the Day by Bill Clegg
'A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemption' Sunday Times A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years. A man arrives at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby. A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past. These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface over the course of one fateful day...
Quietly devastating.. A finely-wrought masterpiece... -- Francesca Carington * Sunday Telegraph *Novel of the Week* *
Reading The End of the Day is like studying a stained-glass window up close...a large, beautiful, mysterious work of art. -- David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife
A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemption... -- Francesca Angelini * Sunday Times *
Fabulously rich and compelling. * Daily Mail *
[A] glorious novel. -- Helen Macdonald * Guardian *
Reading The End of the Day is like studying a stained-glass window up close...a large, beautiful, mysterious work of art. -- David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife
A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemption... -- Francesca Angelini * Sunday Times *
Fabulously rich and compelling. * Daily Mail *
[A] glorious novel. -- Helen Macdonald * Guardian *
Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. He has written for the New York Times, Esquire, New York magazine, the Guardian and Harper’s Bazaar.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784701062 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784701068 |
| Title | The End of the Day |
| Author | Bill Clegg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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