Stuff
Product Details
Washington Square Press, November 2003
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0743422325
ISBN-13: 9780743422321
Description
Eight-year-old Terry McQuinn's life changed one snowy Christmas Eve on the coast of Maine when he glimpsed the "summer people's" world previously unknown to this caretaker's son. Serenity Cottage was a place of beauty and privilege owned by the luminous Halworths -- but in the blink of an eye, tragedy left them in ruins. Determined not to follow in his father's footsteps, Terry grew up to become a high-flying Hollywood film agent -- but he has lost himself along the way. When he is called back to Maine by his father's death, he finds a note that stops him cold: Open Serenity for Christmas. No one has been in the house in thirty years. Although Terry's first instinct is to leave it all behind, he discovers that Katherine Halworth, the girl he remembers from that fateful night, is the new owner. With her arrival imminent, Terry's past comes rushing back and he soon learns that it's never too late to forgive -- and never too late to love.
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Chapter 1Robert Girardi
author of Madeleine's Ghost
Don Snyder's Fallen Angel is a compassionate masterpiece. A Christmas story in the tradition of Dickens, a story of redemption and love and family, written in lucid, precise prose that recalls Richard Yates at his best.
Colin Harrison
author of Afterburn
Few writers know the coast of Maine-- its shorelines of grief, its tidal pools of redemption
-- like Don Snyder. He knows the beauty and silence of lobstermen's villages buried in snow; he knows the bright tinkle of conversation in the shingled mansions owned by summer people. And, most important, he knows how men and women find and lose and remember each other. He's lived the landscape and Fallen Angel brings us this world in his most piercing story yet.
Burton ThrockmortonDon Snyder is a man who feels deeply, loves passionately, and can write about it all eloquently, and with humor. This is a beautifully written novel about feeling and loving, which holds the reader's interest right up to the end.
