Night and Its Longings
by Philip Cioffari
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Pub Date Mar 26 2024 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
Jake Garrett, a writer living in New York’s Greenwich Village, is paid a surprising late-night visit from the husband whose wife, Vera, Jake had an affair with ten years earlier. Even more surprising: the husband asks Jake to help find her, for she’s disappeared. Jake is thrust back into a world he thought had been lost to him forever. Jake’s undying love for Vera propels his search for her through the night-time streets of the city and, finally, to the remote beaches of the Carolina coast. This is a tale of lost love, adultery, and crime told in a taut, lyrical style—keeping the love story and the mystery inseparably intertwined. At its heart pulses the greatest mystery of all: the Self—why we do what we do, how we make amends for a life gone wrong, and how in the darkness of night, we see ourselves in the clearest light.
Advance Praise
"A marriage of a high-toned love story and a nuts-and-bolts mystery plot." --Jonathan Dee, Pulitzer Prize Nominee for The Privileges.
"A marriage of a high-toned love story and a nuts-and-bolts mystery plot." --Jonathan Dee, Pulitzer Prize Nominee for The Privileges.
Marketing Plan
Publishers Weekly; Publicist; Kirkus; review copies
Publishers Weekly; Publicist; Kirkus; review copies
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781604893748 |
| PRICE | $18.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 234 |
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Featured Reviews
Tarang S, Reviewer
Okay, so I requested the book because I loved the title and the blurb was interesting ―a woman is missing and the husband reaches out to her former lover, seeking help to find her.
I must admit that I am a very impatient reader. And this book has 82 chapters. Short chapters but yeah…This book was painfully slow and yet I couldn't abandon the book or just skim through it because it's so beautifully written. The imagery, the emotions, the thoughts...
However, after 42 chapters, I began to lose patience. And interest. After a point, I stopped caring about Vera, or where she was or why she suddenly disappeared and all that. Beautiful writing is cool of course, but mystery should not be that slow. However, if you are a patient reader, you might love this book. Read it for the sheer beauty of the prose.
