And the Dark Sacred Night: A Novel

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 1, 2014 - Fiction - 432 pages

From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes, a "tender, insightful, and winning exploration of the modern family and the infinite number of shapes it can take" (People).

Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to support, a mortgage to pay, and a frustrated wife who insists that, to move forward, Kit must first confront a crucial mystery about his past. Born to a single teenage mother, he has never known the identity of his biological father.

Kit’s search begins with his onetime stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman, and ultimately leads him to Fenno McLeod, the beloved protagonist of Glass's award-winning novel Three Junes. Immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from Vermont to the tip of Cape Cod, And the Dark Sacred Night is an unforgettable novel about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the risks we take when we face down the shadows of our past.

 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
7
Section 3
29
Section 4
47
Section 5
52
Section 6
63
Section 7
68
Section 8
95
Section 24
220
Section 25
227
Section 26
244
Section 27
250
Section 28
265
Section 29
306
Section 30
309
Section 31
313

Section 9
101
Section 10
106
Section 11
111
Section 12
113
Section 13
126
Section 14
128
Section 15
129
Section 16
134
Section 17
139
Section 18
152
Section 19
157
Section 20
165
Section 21
190
Section 22
201
Section 23
210
Section 32
322
Section 33
324
Section 34
329
Section 35
330
Section 36
342
Section 37
348
Section 38
351
Section 39
354
Section 40
360
Section 41
378
Section 42
381
Section 43
383
Section 44
385
Copyright

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About the author (2014)

Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction; The Whole World Over; I See You Everywhere, winner of the 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award; and The Widower’s Tale. Her essays have been widely anthologized. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Glass also teaches fiction writing, most frequently at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

TitleAnd the Dark Sacred Night: A Novel
AuthorJulia Glass
Editionunabridged
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014
ISBN0307908631, 9780307908636
Length432 pages
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