Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lyrical tribute to the self-awareness that "falling in love" can engender. In the end, we do come away struck by the underlying sadness of the tale, not because we realize what "might have been," but because inherently tragic events are not masked by analysis, whether it be Ann's illness or the death of a family friend...
...Evening is fundamentally a revision of the timeworn cliché, "I saw my life passing before my eyes." The central thread at work is Ann's extended flashback of the summer weekend in which she met Harris Arden, a weekend which draws itself out over the entire novel in a lush, lingering continuum of heightened sensations, the country setting of water and trees providing the perfect isolated arena for Ann's realizations about life to flower. For the first time, she realizes that "falling in love" can mean talking control of one's own life. In Ann's words, "Every...
...midst of her remembrance, Ann recalls a last conversation with Harris, while we also gain glimpses of her children, anxiously waiting at her bedside as her death draws near. There is nothing new about the intervening years between Ann's encounter with Harris and the time of her illness; she marries three times, has children and deals with her husbands one by one as they betray her or die or simply leave...
...hallways of the White House to the halls of a major teaching hospital. What a welcome change! The American public is far more interested in the activities of the intern whose job involves saving lives than in those of the intern who played naughty games with our President. ANN DOW West Deptford...
...Ann Lord, 65, lies withering from cancer, aware that death is near, the memory that floats back is not from any of her three marriages. Rather, it is of Lord's first love, a passionate affair with a young doctor that lasted only the length of a friend's weekend wedding festivities. While Lord's four children maintain a death watch, she relives every minute of that fateful weekend and encounters snippets of memory from other points in her life that flesh out the affair's consequences. In her powerful third novel Susan Minot mesmerizes with her convincing evocation...