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ISBN: 0929701666

ISBN13: 9780929701660

Liam's Going: A Novel

By J. Lewis May

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This weekend Liam's going away to college, and his mother, Cathleen Hogan Williams, is taking him there, driving south along the Hudson. For Liam, impatience to arrive at a new destination rubs against the anxiety of a future apart. For Cathleen, the trip has a second purpose: a long-suppressed love affair she had before conceiving him has resurfaced in a poem she is trying to write. Noah, her husband, endures the new separation at home...until an elderly Irish enchantress, a client of his law practice, leads him to recalculate what he himself may have left behind in his youth. For this couple, married and alone, Liam's going ripples outward across the surface of their marriage, the melange of their intertwining memories.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0929701666

ISBN13:9780929701660

Release Date:August 2002

Publisher:McPherson

Length:207 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Rated 5 stars
Beautifully written

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 31, 2008

One can tell that Michael Joyce is a seasoned writer, who takes his craft quite seriously. His writing is beautiful, and in my opinion, unusual. In "Liam's Going" he creates a memorable story about love and loss, about a family trying to come to peace with the past and present. On the surface this novel tells the simple tale of a son going to college--but meaningful musings lay within this fine work.

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Rated 5 stars
A thoughtful, and ultimately emotionally rewarding story

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 10, 2002

Liam's Going by Michael Joyce is a deftly written novel about a young man named Liam who is about to go off to college. Yet his departure has repercussions on the strained marriage of his parents, each of whom must confront different pulls and separate loves in their lives. Liam's Going is a introspective, thoughtful, and ultimately emotionally rewarding story. Also highly recommended is Michael Joyce's early novel, The War...

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Rated 5 stars
Fluid, warm and intelligent writing from a master.

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 6, 2002

Mr. Joyce's latest work flows like our thoughts, back and forth through time and experience, shuffling seamlessly as past events and the present weave together as smooth as a dream. A son's departure for a first term at college revives old emotions and creates new. Current relationships shift in meaning and old relationships resettle. Joyce's style is flawless and true. You will be drawn in and held by his voice.

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