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Conscience : a novel
- Title
- Conscience : a novel / Alice Mattison.
- Author
- Mattison, Alice
- Publication
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-8807 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 401 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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, Bright Morning of Pain, which was 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 modern-day New Haven. When Olive is asked to write an essay about Val's book, a work that attracts and repulses her in equal measure, 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. Things only become more fraught when Griff borrows Olive's treasured first edition of the novel--and loses it. Then Griff's quirky and audacious new colleague, Jean Argos, finds the book and begins reading it, setting off a series of events that will introduce new conflicts, tragedies, and friendships into the precarious balance of Olive and Griff's once stable home.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-8807
- ISBN
- 9781681777894
- 1681777894
- OCLC
- 1033583696
- Author
- Mattison, Alice, author.
- Title
- Conscience : a novel / Alice Mattison.
- Publisher
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1961-1975
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-8807