Mourning Light
Published on 31. July 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-299-33864-0 (ISBN)
Description
Set in Madison, Wisconsin, and New Haven, Connecticut, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, Mourning Light is a semi-autobiographical love story. Our narrator, Reb (so named by his mother because of her love of the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca), is hounded by guilt over the death of his lover, Anthony, which took place on the same day Reb first met the handsome yet enigmatic Eric. Once Reb becomes convinced that Anthony has sent him a cryptic message from beyond the grave, he becomes obsessed with figuring out what it could mean.
Told in a series of flashbacks and remembrances, the novel concludes with a whirlwind of revelations that both complicate and resolve Reb's view of his world and his lover.
Told in a series of flashbacks and remembrances, the novel concludes with a whirlwind of revelations that both complicate and resolve Reb's view of his world and his lover.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-33864-0 (9780299338640)
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Person
Richard Goodkin is a professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published five monographs on seventeenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century French literature and a historical novel, written in French, about Molière's mistress and collaborator, Madeleine Béjart.