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Knight has the rare power to make a setting breathe. . . . Authentic and intense.” The New York Times Book Review
In the spirit of Truman Capote’s classic holiday book, A Christmas Memory , award-winning writer Michael Knight delivers a poignant meditation on loss, legacy, and love, at a particularly complicated time of year. In The Holiday Season , the Posey men are still figuring out how to be a family years after the death of the wife and mother who bound them together. As Thanksgiving nears, hairline fractures in the Poseys’ relationships finally splinter and crack over what should be, but never is, a simple question: where to spend the holidays. Patriarch Jeff wants everything to remain how it was when his wife was alive, but his oldest son thinks it’s time to move on and establish fresh traditions. Caught in the middle is younger son, Frank, a struggling actor who, as the conflict between his father and brother escalates, is finally forced to choose between them. The companion piece, Love at the End of the Year , is an intoxicating tale that weighs up love in its many forms over the course of a single, magical Alabama New Year’s Eve.
In the spirit of Truman Capote’s classic holiday book, A Christmas Memory , award-winning writer Michael Knight delivers a poignant meditation on loss, legacy, and love, at a particularly complicated time of year. In The Holiday Season , the Posey men are still figuring out how to be a family years after the death of the wife and mother who bound them together. As Thanksgiving nears, hairline fractures in the Poseys’ relationships finally splinter and crack over what should be, but never is, a simple question: where to spend the holidays. Patriarch Jeff wants everything to remain how it was when his wife was alive, but his oldest son thinks it’s time to move on and establish fresh traditions. Caught in the middle is younger son, Frank, a struggling actor who, as the conflict between his father and brother escalates, is finally forced to choose between them. The companion piece, Love at the End of the Year , is an intoxicating tale that weighs up love in its many forms over the course of a single, magical Alabama New Year’s Eve.
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Michael Knight teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee.
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"At the top of its class. This slim gem is . . . full of subtle realism. Knight doesn't just show. He paints. . . . He has a mastery of graceful and rhythmic prose, which he employs elegantly to make his humor stick. Capturing a world in a phrase, he creates wonderful narratives of troubled men and women, people we can empathize with during the heart of winter." -- Bookreporter.com
"During this holiday season, we're in good company with the insightful and entertaining Knight." -- USA Today
"Nobody writes about the contemporary Southern upper middle class as well as Michael Knight. [The Holiday Season is an] accurate reflection of real life and [a] testimony to Knight's subtle recognition of the complicated forces that steer people's lives. . . . No one who purchases The Holiday Season will be disappointed." -- the Mobile Register
"Quirky, humorous, smart, and sad, Knight gets to the heart of loneliness, family, and the hope of love without crying a river of false sentiment or cheer that fades with the season." -- Style Weekly
"There is a long tradition of fiction using holiday gatherings as a vehicle for examining relationships under stress. Richard Bausch recently used Thanksgiving this way; Truman Capote, Charles Dickens, Dylan Thomas all used Christmas. Michael Knight's The Holiday Season joins this crowded table and . . . makes itself at home." -- The New York Times Book Review
"During this holiday season, we're in good company with the insightful and entertaining Knight." -- USA Today
"Nobody writes about the contemporary Southern upper middle class as well as Michael Knight. [The Holiday Season is an] accurate reflection of real life and [a] testimony to Knight's subtle recognition of the complicated forces that steer people's lives. . . . No one who purchases The Holiday Season will be disappointed." -- the Mobile Register
"Quirky, humorous, smart, and sad, Knight gets to the heart of loneliness, family, and the hope of love without crying a river of false sentiment or cheer that fades with the season." -- Style Weekly
"There is a long tradition of fiction using holiday gatherings as a vehicle for examining relationships under stress. Richard Bausch recently used Thanksgiving this way; Truman Capote, Charles Dickens, Dylan Thomas all used Christmas. Michael Knight's The Holiday Season joins this crowded table and . . . makes itself at home." -- The New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherGrove Press
- Publication date2007
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- ISBN 13 9780802118578
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