Berriault Gina - A Conference Of Victims A Novella - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Hal O. Costigan candidate for Congress is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife a supportive family and a devoted mother. Friendly intelligent successful he is a man on the rise - until he is caught in an affair with a high school girl and commits suicide. On election day the reporters have forgotten him and the radio doesn't mention his name. Around Hal's hometown however a handful of people continue lives that will be forever haunted by his memory. Naomi who is thrown nearly out of her mind by her brother's suicide questions even her own reason for living. Gina Berriault's work as a storywriter of great psychological empathy and extraordinary elegance and subtlety was celebrated widely at the end of her life and with this reissue of one of her more celebrated short novels her work can be discovered by a new generation of readers.
Title: A Conference Of Victims A Novella
Author(s): Berriault Gina
Publisher: Counterpoint
Barcode: 9781640095960
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 4/25/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction