A Sudden Light
- ISBN-10
- 0857205781
- ISBN-13
- 9780857205780
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-30
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Garth Stein
Description
From the author of the million-copy bestselling The Art of Racing in the Raincomes the breathtaking and long-awaited new novel. This novel centres on four generations of a once terribly wealthy and influential timber family who have fallen from grace; a mysterious yet majestic mansion, crumbling slowy into the bluff overlooking Puget Sound in Seattle; a love affair so powerful it reaches across the planes of existence; and a young man who simply wants his parents to once again experience the moment they fell in love, hoping that if can feel that emotion again, maybe they won't get divorced after all.
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