Thanksgiving Night by Richard Bausch

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Richard Bausch
• Title: Thanksgiving Night
• Publisher: ‎ Harper Collins Publishers; First Edition (October 3, 2006)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge – 403 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0060094435
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0060094430
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.1 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
• Condition: Used – Very Good (May show signs of minor discoloration of the pages).
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

Richard Bausch calls this, his tenth novel, "a love comedy with sorrows." The story is set in the small Virginia valley town of Point Royal, where several of Bausch's other novels and many of his stories take place. It is 1999; predictions of catastrophe blare on the radio, and religious fanaticism is everywhere on the rise. The millennium is approaching.

Oliver Ward and his divorced daughter, a young policewoman named Alison, and Oliver's two grandchildren become involved with Holly Grey and Holly's aunt Fiona, elderly ladies with a marked propensity for outlandish behavior. Holly's son, Will Butterfield, and Elizabeth, Will's second wife by that name, have been happily married for ten years but are about to discover how fragile happiness is.

And in the middle of all of them is an old priest, Father John Fire, who is a good man, thinking of leaving the priesthood. He is called "Brother Fire" by everyone who knows him, after the famous words of Saint Francis when confronted with the burning brand with which he would be martyred. Close to both Holly and Fiona, Brother Fire also has a part to play in the rapidly unfolding family drama.

About the Author:

Richard Bausch is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels Hello to the Cannibals, Thanksgiving Night, and Peace, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the story collections Someone to Watch Over Me and Something Is Out There, a finalist for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In addition, he was the 2012 winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Bausch has also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. A devoted teacher, he is a professor at Chapman University in Orange, California.