{"product_id":"life-after-life-paperback-1","title":"Life After Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJill McCorkle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. \u003ci\u003eLife After Life \u003c\/i\u003eis filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life's most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction. Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill McCorkle's constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. She has conjured an entire community that reminds us that grace and magic can-and do-appear when we least expect it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom--all are in abundance here.\"*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning novelist Jill McCorkle takes us on a journey through time and memory as the residents of a close-knit community demonstrate that grace and magic can--and do--appear when we least expect them. From twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie, they prove our capacity for self-discovery, second chances, and hope--at any age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Illuminating, reassuring, and enlarging our understanding of the crossing from this world to the next, her novel sings with the mystical, the magical and the fragility of this thing called life.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McCorkle's masterful microcosm invokes profound sadness, harsh insight and guffaws, often on the same page.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Great . . . Sharply real.\" --\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Clever, bighearted, and wise.\" --\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The elderly residents of Pine Haven live and yearn and challenge one another with an exuberance that jumps off the page.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is grown-up fun. Deep pleasure for smart people. And it is beautiful all the way.\" --Richard Bausch, author of \u003ci\u003ePeace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful gift for dialogue has always animated Jill McCorkle's fiction, and here we hear some astonishing voices . . . As readers, we feel honored to witness their passages.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A story and characters that readers won't soon forget.\" --\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.\" --*Ron Rash, author of \u003ci\u003eNothing Gold Can Stay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jill McCorkle published her first two novels on the same day in 1984. Of these novels, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e said: \"one suspects the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cheer Leader\u003c\/i\u003e is a born novelist. With \u003ci\u003eJuly 7th\u003c\/i\u003e, she is also a full grown one.\" Since then she has published five other novels--most recently, \u003ci\u003eHieroglyphics\u003c\/i\u003e-- and four collections of short stories. Five of her books have been named \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e notable books and four of her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. McCorkle has received the New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, the North Carolina Award for Literature and the Thomas Wolfe Prize; she was recently inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame. McCorkle has taught at Harvard, Brandeis and NC State where she remains affiliated with the MFA Program in creative writing and she is core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48634970472697,"sku":"9781616203221","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/zyjyHCl-dy9781616203221.webp?v=1783217866","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/life-after-life-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}