Almost Heaven (Includes Inscribed Uncorrected Proof)

Wiggins, Marianne

ISBN 10: 0517707624 / ISBN 13: 9780517707623

Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1998

About this Item

Inscribed by Wiggins on the title page. Returning home to Virginia, a young, burnt-out foreign correspondent is drawn into a love affair with a woman who has been hospitalized with hysterical amnesia since the deaths of her husband and sons in a freak act of nature. An Inscribed Uncorrected Proof in illustrated wrappers is included. ; 213 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 12882

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Almost Heaven (Includes Inscribed Uncorrected Proof)
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517707624
• ISBN 13: 9780517707623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Almost Heaven is an intellectually dazzling, emotionally incandescent story of memory and the redemptive power of love.
        
Holden Garfield is a foreign correspondent, burnt out before he's thirty, who comes back to Virginia to try to forget his experiences of war abroad and to find new hope in his life. What he finds, instead, is a woman who is desperate for his help.
        
Through a chance phone call, Holden learns that his mentor's sister, Melanie, is hospitalized in Richmond with hysterical amnesia after her husband and sons were killed in a freak act of nature. Holden sets out to help her reconstruct her past, and almost at once the two embark on a passionate love affair--one fighting to remember, the other yearning to forget.
        
Memory. Passion. Loss. The ravages of extreme forces of nature . . . These are the themes Marianne Wiggins weaves through Almost Heaven with the same effects she so brilliantly deployed in her previous classic, John Dollar. In Almost Heaven she brings her dramatic force home, writing not only a whirlwind love story but a personal love letter to the American South.

About the Author

Marianne Wiggins is the author of Herself in Love, John Dollar, and Eveless Eden. She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She lives in London.