Life After Life by Jill Mccorkle

Life After Life by Jill Mccorkle

Gorgeously written . . . McCorkle's greatest gift is in illuminating the countless tiny moments that make up our time on Earth.--O: The Oprah Magazine

Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life's most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction. Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill McCorkle's constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. She has conjured an entire community that reminds us that grace and magic can--and do--appear when we least expect it.

Jill McCorkle's new novel, Hieroglyphics, is on sale June 9, 2020.

Jill McCorkle's first two novels were published simultaneously when she was fresh out of college, earning her the title of born writer by the New York Times. She's released six novels and four collections of short stories since then, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction multiple times. Her most recent novel, Life After Life, was a New York Times bestseller, and five of her books have been named New York Times Notable Books. The New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literary, and the North Carolina Award for Literature have all been bestowed upon her. She has contributed to magazines such as the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Garden and Gun, the Atlantic, and others.

She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard University, where she also served as chair of the creative writing department. She is presently a member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars faculty and a graduate student at North Carolina State University's MFA program.

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ISBN 13	9781565122550
ISBN 10	1565122550
Title	Life After Life
Author	Jill Mccorkle
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Shannon Ravenel Books
Year published	2013-03-26
Number of pages	344
Prizes	Commended for Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Fiction) 2014
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.