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A moving tribute to Virginia Woolf's classic novel To the Lighthouse, J.D. Engle’s Two Seasons continues the story of the intriguing artist Lily Briscoe, while standing on its own as a warmly involving work of fiction.
In the autumn five years after the 1927 novel's triumphant end, the now married Lily Ramsay brings family and friends together at what is essentially a farewell dinner for her terminally ill husband. Five years later, spring finds us at the Ramsay Hebrides house of the earlier novel for the wedding of daughter Rose. Celebrated as a successful artist, yet reserved and only comfortable on the margins of social settings, Lily deals with the tensions ignited by her calmer but still difficult husband and the lingering resentments of his children.
True to Woolf's theme of a senseless world temporarily leant meaningful order by artistic creation and warm human relations, J.D. Engle’s Two Seasons is the quietly riveting story of a remarkable family and of a strong female character struggling against her nature to ally these essential forces.
About the Author
A Ph.D. specializing in modern British literature, J.D. Engle has taught at numerous universities in America and Europe and written dozens of articles on literature, cinema, and an eclectic array of other subjects. Two Seasons is Engle's acclaimed debut novel.
Book Review 1:
“Compelling and quite moving . . . a work of virtuosity and originality” -- Peter Dimock, novelist (George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time, Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson, etc.)
Book Review 2:
‘’A beautifully written book . . . . At a time when failing to register how so much of what we do in the present will produce dire consequences in the future, Two Seasons calls us, finally and simply, to pay closer attention—to how we talk and write and tell stories, to the dense meanings of every moment, to the mystery and vastness of other people’s inner lives, to the ways that worlds end, and to the ways they nonetheless still live on.” -- Lee Zimmerman, Editor, Twentieth Century Literature; Professor, Hofstra University
A moving tribute to Virginia Woolf's classic novel To the Lighthouse, J.D. Engle’s Two Seasons continues the story of the intriguing artist Lily Briscoe, while standing on its own as a warmly involving work of fiction.
In the autumn five years after the 1927 novel's triumphant end, the now married Lily Ramsay brings family and friends together at what is essentially a farewell dinner for her terminally ill husband. Five years later, spring finds us at the Ramsay Hebrides house of the earlier novel for the wedding of daughter Rose. Celebrated as a successful artist, yet reserved and only comfortable on the margins of social settings, Lily deals with the tensions ignited by her calmer but still difficult husband and the lingering resentments of his children.
True to Woolf's theme of a senseless world temporarily leant meaningful order by artistic creation and warm human relations, J.D. Engle’s Two Seasons is the quietly riveting story of a remarkable family and of a strong female character struggling against her nature to ally these essential forces.
About the Author
A Ph.D. specializing in modern British literature, J.D. Engle has taught at numerous universities in America and Europe and written dozens of articles on literature, cinema, and an eclectic array of other subjects. Two Seasons is Engle's acclaimed debut novel.
Book Review 1:
“Compelling and quite moving . . . a work of virtuosity and originality” -- Peter Dimock, novelist (George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time, Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson, etc.)
Book Review 2:
‘’A beautifully written book . . . . At a time when failing to register how so much of what we do in the present will produce dire consequences in the future, Two Seasons calls us, finally and simply, to pay closer attention—to how we talk and write and tell stories, to the dense meanings of every moment, to the mystery and vastness of other people’s inner lives, to the ways that worlds end, and to the ways they nonetheless still live on.” -- Lee Zimmerman, Editor, Twentieth Century Literature; Professor, Hofstra University
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