Twelve short stories explore the efforts of characters to deal with fears, disappointments, and marital problems

BOP (Vintage Contemporaries)

Chernoff, Maxine

Vintage

A Boy in Winter takes the stuff of newspaper headlines and explores, in a taut, deeply moving narrative, the human passions behind it. After Nancy Horvath and her eleven-year-old son, Danny, move into their dream house, Danny becomes fast friends with ten-year-old Eddie Nova, the boy next door. Eddie is a hyperactive, difficult child, both boon companion and bane of Danny's existence. Meanwhile, Nancy's helpful, neighborly relationship with Eddie's father, Frank, becomes a passionate affair. Frank is the partner Nancy wishes she had, and the father Danny has always longed for. Then one day, Eddie brings over a hunting bow and playfully aims it at Danny and his dog. In a tragic mishap, Danny accidentally shoots and kills his friend. The novel traces the repercussions of that accident--in Nancy's voice, in Danny's voice, and from Frank's point of view. Danny's extraordinary account of the events that led up to the action is a heartbreaking, pitch-perfect record of the complications of love, the weight of isolation, and the ultimate opacity of intention and motivation. How Nancy's fierce, enduring love for her son sustains a future for him and how Frank's devastating loss and guilt play into that future provide drama-tic counterpoint to Danny's painful dissection of what he has done. With stunning imagination and an almost sculptural elegance of storytelling, Maxine Cher-noff balances the radical shock of tragedy with the hard-won optimism of survival. She brilliantly enacts how a child stunned by grief and the adults who love him reclaim their trust in the future. Ultimately, A Boy in Winter testifies to the power of parental love and steadfast friendship to provide hope and faith in the face of tragedy.

A Boy in Winter

Literature & Fiction

United States

Crown

When Sarah Holmes announces she wants a divorce, her daughter and a girlfriend run away from home, Sarah and her lover fly to California to find them, and as they wait for the girls, along with Sarah's sister, all of them must come to terms with the changes in their lives

Plain Grief

Summit Books

Book by Tiersky, Ethel, Chernoff, Maxine

Birthplaces of Ideasbook 4 (Contemporary's Attractions, Bk. 4)

Reference

Tiersky,Ethel

Words, Language & Grammar

Contemporary Books

Sun and Games (Attractions)

Back to the Past (Attractions)

It's Colossal (Attractions)

In the News/Articles from Herald International Tribune

English as a Second Language

Natl Textbook Co Trade

International Herald Tribune: In the News: Mastering Reading and Language Skills with the Newspaper

Foreign Language Study & Reference

NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company

Coffee House Press

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