A Forty Year Kiss
by Nickolas Butler
Narrated by Richard Poe
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Pub Date Feb 04 2025 | Archive Date Jan 31 2025
RBmedia | Recorded Books
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Description
From the bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes a rugged feel-good valentine, a small-town novel for readers who still believe in sunset triumph and second chances
Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he’s not sure what he’ll find. He is sure of one thing—he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It’s forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets.
An accomplished exploration of starting over and sunset triumph, A Forty-Year Kiss is a novel in the tradition of Kent Haruf's Our Souls at Night.This is a literary valentine that promises to become a love-story for the ages.
Advance Praise
"Nick Butler only writes good books, but this is the one that sticks most tightly in my brain and heart. While Nick dedicates the novel to Nora Ephron—and indeed it's deftly written and should translate seamlessly to the screen—it might be more evocative of Kent Haruf in Plainsong or Our Souls at Night. Its Midwest is weathered and described with affection and restraint; its people are presented whole and in context, the seldom-seen brought into vivid focus, their yearnings and failings intact. A Forty Year Kiss has the courage to suggest it's not too late—for romance, or transcendence, or just to be better. It's a book for the midnight optimist that is waiting inside us all." —Leif Enger, bestselling author of Peace Like a River and I Cheerfully Refuse
"Life-affirming and straight up beautiful. Will stoke the good fire in your chest. I absolutely loved it. A must-read." —Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook
"This charming and empathetic portrayal of the Midwest and its denizens explores late-in-life romance, the pangs of regret, and the possibility of renewal no matter how much time has passed." —Booklist
Available Editions
| EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
| ISBN | 9798895940976 |
| PRICE | $29.99 (USD) |
| DURATION | 11 Hours, 45 Minutes |
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