Evening (Movie Tie-in Edition)

ANEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR July 1954. An island off the coast of Maine. Ann Granta 25-year-old New York career girlis a bridesmaid at her best friend's lavish wedding. Also present is a man named Harris Arden, whom Ann has never met . . . After three marriages and five children, Ann Lord lies in an upstairs bedroom of a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What comes to her, eclipsing a stream of doctor's visits and friends stopping by and grown children overheard whispering from the next room, is a rush of memories from a weekend 40 years ago in Maine, when she fell in love with a passion that even now throws a shadow onto the rest of her life. InEvening, Susan Minot gives us a novel of spellbinding power on the nature of memory and love.

Susan Minot's first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and received the Prix Femina Étranger in France. She is the author of Rapture, Lust & Other Stories, Folly, Evening, and Poems 4 A.M., and wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She lives on an island in Maine.