The Stark Beauty of Last Things by Céline Keating (.ePUB)
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The Stark Beauty of Last Things by Céline Keating
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Overview: In Céline Keating’s timely and engrossing new novel, THE STARK BEAUTY OF LAST THINGS, a small web of people wrestle over the fate of the last undeveloped stretch of wild land in Montauk, a town on the far reaches of Long Island at risk from climate change.
Clancy is a thirty-six year old insurance adjuster who visits Montauk hoping to reconnect with the Big Brother who meant the most to him during his time in foster care. But when that man dies and leaves his ownership vote for the undeveloped parcel to Clancy, Clancy finds himself in a tense, possibly hostile, position – right when he believes he has finally found a place to belong. Everyone has a stake in the outcome of the vote: Julienne, an artist and hotel owner fighting to save her business and the land she adores; Theresa, a bartender whose trailer park home is threatened by coastal erosion; and Molly and Billy, a young couple being pressured to sell.
In this beautifully written novel told in multiple voices, and in which the land itself becomes a character, Keating writes movingly of our bonds to nature and our bonds to each other, and her deft, surprising, and even ingenious ending offers unexpected hope for our time.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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