- Widowers, Death, Fiction, Loss (Psychology)
Reeling from the recent death of his invalid mother, a worn, jaded professor comes to our nation's capital to recuperate from his loss. What he finds there -- in his repressed, lonely landlord, in the city's mood and architecture, and in the letters and journals of Mary Todd Lincoln -- shows him new, poignant truths about America, yearning, loneliness, and mourning itself.
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Contemplative, grave, prestige and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Andrew Holleran
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 150
- Publisher
- Hyperion, Hyperion Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781401302504
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