The Day

Know about the book -

The Day is written by Douglas Hobbie and published by Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0805025197 (ISBN 10) and 9780805025194 (ISBN 13).

"Douglas Hobbie's novel Boomfell was hailed as a literary debut of first importance and won the 1992 Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters." "In The Day, Hobbie continues his exploration of family life and the unending conflict between passion and comfort. It is Thanksgiving, 1991. Fletcher, an architect adrift in the prevailing economic downturn, is the relative outsider at his wife's family gathering. His sense of dislocation is the somewhat distorting lens through which we view the novel's events. Fletcher is haunted by memories of the person at the center of the book, Clare, his sister-in-law and one-time soul mate, whose bewildering death occurred exactly one year earlier. Her story provides a powerful counterpoint to the pretenses of holiday conviviality and helps to complete this compelling family portrait."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved