{"product_id":"9781565125421","title":"A Dangerous Age : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Dangerous Age\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Ellen Gilchrist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe women in the Hand family are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. Those traits seem, in fact, to be a part of their family’s heritage, one that stretches back through several generations and many wars. \u003ci\u003eA Dangerous Age\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of the strength of these women and of the bonds of blood and shared loss that hold them together. Louise, Winifred, and Olivia are reconnecting the pieces of their lives and rediscovering love, but each is unwittingly on a collision course with a seemingly distant war that is really never more than a breath away. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, this finely honed novel about the centuries-old struggle for women who are left to carry on with life when their men go off to war is by a writer the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e says “should be declared a national cultural treasure.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ellen Gilchrist is a wonderful writer, with a winning grace and humaneness . . . Moving and tender and tough and unsentimental at the same time.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gilchrist rides the tension--between seeing events and motivations clearly and becoming clouded by personal and material concerns--on a perfect edge.”\u003cem\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Aims to show readers that Americans have a resilience that won’t allow us to simply sulk and blame . . . The writing is polished; all her details matter.”\u003cem\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Gilchrist can create wonderful female characters, contemporary women who come alive on the page and linger long after the book is over.”\u003cem\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“[Her] fiction never fails to inspire with its feisty spirit and enduring hopefulness.”\u003cem\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003eThe New Orleans Times-Picayune\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e “[Gilchrist] gives this novel a humanity easily embraced by the reader. [Her] trademark supple prose and droll sense of humor are on full display.” \u003cem\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Narrated in the author's characteristically fine prose and populated by . . . sympathetic and believable characters. Recommended.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781565125421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40838508708046,"sku":"9781565125421","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_0071aa8e-1bc2-489f-8d37-54b641abdb07.jpg?v=1643532153","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781565125421","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}