
Conference of Victims
by Gina Berriault
Title:
Conference of Victims
Author:
Gina Berriault
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
144 pages
Publisher:
Counterpoint
ISBN-13:
9781640095960
EAN:
9781640095960
Publication Date:
25/04/2023
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
274
Dimensions (mm):
208 x 139 x 13
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
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.












