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This is your life, Harriet Chance!, a novel, Jonathan Evison

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This is your life, Harriet Chance!, a novel, Jonathan Evison

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

This is your life, Harriet Chance!

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Evison

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"Jonathan Evison is a ridiculously gifted storyteller: racing, breathless, and vibrant with his prose, hungry for personal truths, and clearly in love with the world around us all. That compassion and those writerly charms are deeply felt in This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, an irresistible, inventive novel full of important ideas about how we live our lives as parents, children, partners, and human beings." —Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet's past. There, amid the overwhelming buffets and the incessant lounge singers, between the imagined appearances of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged..

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