Widows' Adventures: A Novel - Hardcover

Dickinson, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688089240 ISBN 13: 9780688089245

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1989

Synopsis

Not content to settle quietly into their golden years, two widowed sisters embark upon a cross-country journey that also proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Widowhood came late in life to Ina and Helene, two sisters living in Chicago. Now there is nothing holding them back from one last great adventure: a long, leisurely drive to visit family in Los Angeles. Only Helene knows how to operate an automobile, however, and she has been blind for years. But with caustic, beer-swigging Ina as her eyes, she's willing to get behind the wheel once again. And now, on sparsely traveled back roads in the dead of night -- cruising at a comfortable twelve miles per hour -- they're off to see an America they never knew.

About the Author:

With seven highly acclaimed books to his credit, Charles Dickinson takes American fiction back to the complexity of modern life and love with his characteristically incisive irony and humor. Critics have compared him to such masters as Margaret Atwood, Ann Tyler, Michael Crichton and Raymond Carver.

His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and The Atlantic, among others, and two stories, "Risk" and "Child in the Leaves," were included in O. Henry collections. He has received generous praise for his novels, Waltz in Marathon, Crows, The Widows’ Adventures, Rumor Has It, A Shortcut in Time, and its sequel, A Family in Time, and his collection of stories, With or Without.

Born in Detroit, Dickinson lives near Chicago with his wife.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0688089240
• ISBN 13: 9780688089245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 381