First You Try Everything
| Year of Publication |
2012
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
288 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Jane McCafferty |
| Publisher |
Harper
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Evvie and Ben Muldoone are a childless couple in their early 40s whose marriage, after 16 years, has slowly disintegrated. Their story unfolds empathetically in shifting points of view between the spouses. Ben has fallen out of love. After 9/11, Ben dreams of a different sort of life in Pittsburgh or even another place, and tells Evvie that he is leaving her. Evvie feels wounded, mourns her loss, grieves, panics, and then obsesses about plots to win back Ben's love and to lure him home.
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| Author Biography |
Jane McCafferty (1960- ) won the 1992 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Director of the World, a collection of short stories. The senior judge was John Edgar Wideman. She has taught writing at the University of Pittsburgh, Allegheny College, and Carnegie Mellon University. She lives in Pittsburgh's Highland Park neighborhood.
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| Time |
2000s
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