| Conscience Contributor(s): Mattison, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1643132504 ISBN-13: 9781643132501 Publisher: Pegasus Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.7" (0.80 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and each followed a distinct path into adulthood. Helen became a violent revolutionary. Val wrote a controversial book, essentially a novelization of Helen's all-too-short but vibrant life. And Olive became an editor and writer, now comfortably settled with her husband, Griff, in New Haven. When Olive is asked to write an essay about Val's book, doing so brings back to the forefront Olive and Griff's tangled histories and their complicated reflections on that tumultuous time in their young lives.Conscience, the dazzling new novel from award-winning author Alice Mattison, paints the nuanced relationships between characters with her signature wit and precision. And as Mattison explores the ways in which women make a difference--for good or ill--in the world, she elegantly weaves together the past and the present, and the political and the personal. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mattison, Alice: - Alice Mattison's novels include The Book Borrower, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, and When We Argued All Night. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and Ecotone, and been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Short Stories. Her most recent work is The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control--and Live to Tell the Tale. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut. |
