A Life in Men
A Novel
by Gina Frangello
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Pub Date Feb 04 2014 | Archive Date Mar 04 2014
Description
The friendship between Mary and Nix had endured since childhood, a seemingly unbreakable bond, until the mid-1980s, when the two young women reunited for a summer vacation in Greece. It was a trip instigated by Nix, who had just learned that Mary had been diagnosed with a disease that would inevitably cut her life short. Nix, a free spirit by nature, was determined that Mary have the vacation of a lifetime, but by the time their visit to Greece was over, the ties between them had unraveled, and when they said goodbye, it was for the last time.
Three years later, Mary returns to Europe to try to understand what went wrong, in the process meeting the first of many men she will spend time with and travel with throughout the world. Through them she experiences not just a sexual awakening but a spiritual and emotional awakening that allows her to understand how the past and the future are connected, and to appreciate how important it is that she live her life to the fullest.
Advance Praise
“A Life in Men is a terrific book, a tender story of friendship, and a frank story of a young woman's adventures with an assortment of oddly funny, violent, and quirky men. It's intense and beautifully written.”—Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife
“A joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.”
—Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Once Upon a River
“Gina Frangello’s luminous novel A Life in Men is deeply human, darkly funny, seriously sexy; it brims with artistry and intelligence and heart. Nix and Mary are the modern heroines of a very modern love affair, when the choice of a best friend is as epic and intimate as the choice of a lover, and the story of their bond – fierce, loving, bottomless – explores what can happen when two friends live under one’s death sentence. Frangello illuminates the ways in which life, itself, is an illusion, but a grand and beautiful and heartbreaking and brilliant one. A book about the deepest kind of love, A Life in Men asks (and answers) these questions: how would you live if you had limited time, and with whom would you spend it?”—Emily Rapp, author of The Still Point of the Turning World
“A Life in Men is a vivid, devastating, and ferocious novel that captures a woman’s whole life in world torn apart by terrorism and alienation. Frangello has delivered on a decade of promise and written a story of love, passion, and friendship that will rock readers to the core.”—Patrick Somerville, author of The Cradle and This Bright River
“As always, in A Life in Men, Gina Frangello delivers truth in the form of brave, purposeful, masterful prose. The emotional lives of her characters are as complex as those of any breathing human, nuanced, sharp and fully real.”—Elizabeth Crane, author of We Only Know So Much
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781616201630 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
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