Mourning Light

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-299-33864-0
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Set in Madison, Wisconsin, and New Haven, Connecticut, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, Mourning Light is a semi-autobiographical love story. Our narrator, Reb (so named by his mother because of her love of the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca), is hounded by guilt over the death of his lover, Anthony, which took place on the same day Reb first met the handsome yet enigmatic Eric. Once Reb becomes convinced that Anthony has sent him a cryptic message from beyond the grave, he becomes obsessed with figuring out what it could mean.
 
Told in a series of flashbacks and remembrances, the novel concludes with a whirlwind of revelations that both complicate and resolve Reb’s view of his world and his lover.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodkin, Richard

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Goodkin is a professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published five monographs on seventeenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century French literature and a historical novel, written in French, about MoliÈre’s mistress and collaborator, Madeleine BÉjart.