Think of England
A Novel
$32.91
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2003
Summary
From the author of In the Gloaming and Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark’s powerful and emotional debut novel traces one young woman’s reckoning with a childhood tragedy set during mid-1960s America and 1970s London.
Two cataclysmic events occur on February 9, 1964. The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and later that night, nine-year-old Jane MacLeod’s life changes forever. It has been said that children are good observers but poor interpreters and Jane’s interpretation of the events of that evening shapes her life in ways she doesn’t recognize.
Think of England follows Jane from an intense love affair in the ex-pat scene in punk-era London to working motherhood in New York to a family reunion in the country—and a reckoning with the ghost that has stood between her and her dreams of a happy family.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743234979 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743234979 |
| Author: | Alice Elliott Dark |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2003 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 127mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
The New YorkerEverything in this book is a pleasure to read.
The New Yorker Everything in this book is a pleasure to read.
Los Angeles Times Alice Elliott Dark is the author of two acclaimed story collections, and her debut novel has the same finely observed, hushed ambience that makes her stories so seductive….The story of Jane MacLeod unfolds beautifully across Think of England’s three panels, each one a perfect evocation of its time and place.
Orlando Sentinel Dark’s prose is controlled yet resonant, and the novel…draws its substance from her compassionate insight into character, its grace from her observance of small yet defining moments….Now when we think of England, we’ll think of this fine book.
Alice Elliott Dark
Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the national bestseller Fellowship Point and Think of England, and two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. She is the director of Rutgers-Newark MFA program.
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