The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen

The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen

What if Molly took center stage in James Joyce's Ulysses? What if she lived in suburban America?

The House on Eccles Road

It is June 16, 1999, in Dublin, Ohio, and Molly wanders through her empty day while her husband, Leo, tends to a strict and busy professor's schedule. On the surface of her thoughts, Molly wonders: Will he remember their anniversary? And how many hints should she give him? As Molly and Leo circle each other throughout the day, Judith Kitchen illuminates the scope of Leo and Molly's life together detail by detail. Molly is offended by the hot June day, hums Irish tunes, considers an old love; Leo thinks about his star pupil, young girls at the tennis court, his aging father. Both, if differently, mourn the loss of their four-year-old son eight years ago.

In this momentous novel, Kitchen weaves these and other voices into the tapestry of a single day, an ordinary day in the lives of ordinary people, yet a day that, by gathering the threads of all they have been, might change their lives forever. Strange, Molly was thinking, how we go through our lives on remote control. But as she drives toward town, a quick glance at a fatal car accident, which has slowed traffic to an agonizing crawl, brings her to the precipice.

Judith Kitchen is the author of three other collections of essays, most recently Half in Shade, Coffee House Press. She has also published a novel, a book of poetry, and a book on the work of William Stafford. In addition, she has edited three collections of short nonfiction pieces for W. W. Norton, an anthology of poetry on birds, and is currently working on a collection of selected reviews of poetry from the past twenty-five years. She lives in Port Townsend, WA where she is in the same time zone, but not the same zip code or area code, as her three grandsons.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780142003305
ISBN 10	0142003301
Title	The House on Eccles Road
Author	Judith Kitchen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2003-09-30
Number of pages	221
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note	Unavailable