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      By Bennett, Alan, 1934-
       2015., Adult, Picador Call No: Fic Ben    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Alan Bennett has long been one of the world's most revered humorists. From his acclaimed story collection Smut to his hilarious and sharply observed The Uncommon Reader, Bennett has consistently remained one of literature's most acute observers of Britain and life's many absurdities. In this new collection, drawn from his wide-ranging career, you'll read some of Bennett's finest work, including the title story, the basis for a new feature film starring Maggie Smith. The book also includes the rollicking comic masterpiece 'The Laying on of Hands' and the bittersweet 'Father! Father! Burning Bright,' Bennett's classic tale of the tense relationship between a man and his dying father."--From publisher.
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      By Gordon, Mary, 1949-
       c2011., Anchor Books Call No: Fic Gor   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: This work is a novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years, walking the streets of Rome and reimmersing themselves in their lost past. Miranda and Adam, high school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, where they once spent a summer deeply in love, blissfully living together. At an awkward reunion, the two, who parted in an atmosphere of passionate betrayal in the 1960s and haven't seen each other since, are surprised to discover that they may still have something to talk about; they decide that, for these few weeks, they will take daily walks together. As they experience Rome, the pleasures of eye and palate, and the daily drama of the streets, they review their lives (married to others, and with grown children) and gradually explore not just what matters to them now, but what happened to them long ago. Miranda and Adam are masterfully portrayed characters, intent on understanding who they are in relation to who they were. Theirs is a rich and wise story of forgiveness and reckoning.
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      By Rose, Connie Barnes
       c2011., General, Inanna Publications and Education Call No: QWF Fic Ros    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Inanna poetry & fiction series.Summary Note: Over the years Trish and Ray have forged a stable family life, despite a rocky beginning almost twenty years earlier - living with their friends on a communal farm that ended badly. Now they are all coming to terms with life in their forties, but Trish has become angry and insecure. She suddenly finds herself faced with an ailing marriage, a teenaged daughter who would prefer to live with her alcoholic grandmother than at home, and an annoying half-sister, Olive, whom Trish has been taught to believe is no blood relation. This cheery take-charge half-sister, now living in Trish''s childhood summer home, seems bent on destroying the last shreds of Trish''s sense of self. When a freak April snow storm hits Thunder Hill and the power goes out, Trish finds herself in a compromising situation with her hermit/hippie friend, Bear James, who also happens to be her husband''s closest friend. Later, when forced to seek refuge at her half-sister''s home, Trish feels she''s living a nightmare, one which drives her to face her past. Will the future hold anything for Trish other than that of becoming "a bitter old woman" and "immature freak," accusations her daughter Gayl has flung at her recently?.