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Sweet Agony

A Novel

By Nancy Huston

By Nancy Huston

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Part of Vintage International

Paperback $15.95

Jan 07, 2003 | ISBN 9780375713668

Sweet Agony by Nancy Huston
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Jan 07, 2003 | ISBN 9780375713668

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About Sweet Agony

On a snowy New England evening in a small college town, Sean Farrell–a hard-drinking, libidinous poet and professor–hosts a Thanksgiving dinner. The eleven guests include two fellow professors (one a novelist, the other also a poet), two of Sean’s former lovers, his lawyer, his housepainter, and his baker. What none of them knows is that Sean is dying. This dinner could be his grand finale.

As food and drink flow, secrets are exposed, tragedies bared, and truths uncovered. “Never could we have dreamed how rough adult life would be,” one character thinks. Yet there is wit and laughter too, in a novel about mortality that is also a celebration of life. With each new book, it becomes increasingly clear that Nancy Huston is a writer of exceptional gifts. Sweet Agony is another impressive performance from a writer whose eye is as sharp as her insight into the human condition is wise.

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About Nancy Huston

Nancy Huston is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the critically acclaimed Fault Lines, which won France’s Prix Femina and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She has also won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéen, the Prix du Livre-Inter,… More about Nancy Huston

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $15.95
Published by Vintage
Jan 07, 2003 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375713668

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Praise

“An elegant and nimble writer.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Nancy Huston writes with grace and power, and a wisdom that can only come from the heart.” –Chris Bohjalian, author of Midwives

“Insightful and stylish….An audacious conceit distinguishes Huston’s tale.” –Kirkus Reviews

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