Jonathan Evison
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Again and Again -- Jonathan Evison - Hardcover
From one of America's greatest, most creative novelists comes Again and Again, a poignant and endlessly surprising story about love lost, found, and redeemed
Eugene "Geno" Miles is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his new nursing assistant, Angel, who is understandably skeptical of Geno's insistence on having lived not just one life but many--all the way back to medieval Spain, where, as a petty thief, he first lucked upon true love only to lose it, and spend the next thousand years trying to recapture it. Who is Geno? A lonely old man clinging to his delusions and rehearsing his fantasies, or a legitimate anomaly, a thousand-year-old man who continues to search for the love he lost so long ago? As Angel comes to learn the truth about Geno, so, too, does the reader, and as his miraculous story comes to a head, so does the biggest truth of all: that love--timeless, often elusive--is sometimes right in front of us.
Author: Jonathan Evison
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.35w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780593184158
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2023 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 09/04/2023
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2023
Booklist 10/01/2023 pg. 23
Eugene "Geno" Miles is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his new nursing assistant, Angel, who is understandably skeptical of Geno's insistence on having lived not just one life but many--all the way back to medieval Spain, where, as a petty thief, he first lucked upon true love only to lose it, and spend the next thousand years trying to recapture it. Who is Geno? A lonely old man clinging to his delusions and rehearsing his fantasies, or a legitimate anomaly, a thousand-year-old man who continues to search for the love he lost so long ago? As Angel comes to learn the truth about Geno, so, too, does the reader, and as his miraculous story comes to a head, so does the biggest truth of all: that love--timeless, often elusive--is sometimes right in front of us.
Author: Jonathan Evison
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.35w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780593184158
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2023 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 09/04/2023
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2023
Booklist 10/01/2023 pg. 23
About the Author
Jonathan Evison is the author of the novels Small World; All About Lulu; West of Here; The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!; Lawn Boy; and Legends of the North Cascades. He lives with his wife and family in Washington State.