A Day Late

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"A book that dares to be moving by taking a long hard look at love and death, as they occur in the lives of recognizable ordinary people. A Day Late is rich and lively because— in spite of its focus on two people with painful problems-there are so many real, sympathetic characters on all sides, to shore them up or bring them back to reality, to remind them that life is going on unstoppably everywhere. Carolyn Doty writes beautifully, with a poet's compression and color, with a good ear for conversation and a true novelist's sense of scale: this is a small book that goes painfully deep and finds, at the bottom, not meaninglessness and shame but a muted unquenchable joy."
—Rosellen Brown, author of Autobiography of My Mother and Tender Mercies
"I admire and envy what Carolyn Doty has done in A Day Late. It's a careful book and so true about parents and children and death and love and friendship. We need to believe that although life does kill us, it can also resurrect us Carolyn... Tovább

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"A book that dares to be moving by taking a long hard look at love and death, as they occur in the lives of recognizable ordinary people. A Day Late is rich and lively because— in spite of its focus on two people with painful problems-there are so many real, sympathetic characters on all sides, to shore them up or bring them back to reality, to remind them that life is going on unstoppably everywhere. Carolyn Doty writes beautifully, with a poet's compression and color, with a good ear for conversation and a true novelist's sense of scale: this is a small book that goes painfully deep and finds, at the bottom, not meaninglessness and shame but a muted unquenchable joy."
—Rosellen Brown, author of Autobiography of My Mother and Tender Mercies
"I admire and envy what Carolyn Doty has done in A Day Late. It's a careful book and so true about parents and children and death and love and friendship. We need to believe that although life does kill us, it can also resurrect us Carolyn Doty has made the pain in her story cut so deep, has made it so ironic and inexplicable, so real, that we see that she's wise and we trust her. And then when she shows us redemption we can't help but feel its real possibility."
—Terry Davis, author of Vision Quest
"A Day Late is wise and moving, and the setting is masterfully handled. America, and the American West, have a new voice in Carolyn Doty."
—MacDonald Harris, author of The Balloonist, Yukiko, and Pandora's Galley
"A Day Late is powerful and impressive and heartrending in the best way. I loved it. It moved like lightning. I cared completely about the characters and was thrilled by Carolyn Doty's ability to paint the Nevada landscape so vividly. She knows that territory like no other writer I've read, and she has an infallible eye for what is meaningful there, and for what is universal."
—Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire and The Feast of All Saints Vissza