A Forty Year Kiss

Resumen del libro

From the critically acclaimed author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes an exquisitely written, small-town story about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, forty years after their divorce. Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing -- he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets. A brave and triumphant exploration of redemption and sunset triumph, A Forty Year Kiss is a once-in-a-lifetime love story, written with dazzling lyricism and remarkable clarity of spirit, from a celebrated author at the top of his game. It's a literary valentine that promises to be a love story for the ages.

Biografía del autor

Nickolas Butler (Allentown, Pennsilvània, 1979) es va criar a Eau Claire, Wisconsin, i va estudiar a la Universitat de Wisconsin-Madison i al Taller dx{0026} x02019;Escriptors dx{0026} x02019;Iowa. Els seus textos han aparegut en diverses publicacions com The New York Times Review, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares i The Progressive. La seva primera novel-la, Shotgun lovesongs (2014), li va valdre un èxit notable de crítica i públic i la productora Fox Searchlight va adquirir-ne els drets per dur-la al cinema. També és autor de les novel-les Al cor dels homes (Empúries, 2017; nominada al Premi Médicis Estranger) i Little faith (2019), així com del recull de contes Beneath the bonfire (2015). Bona sort és la segona novel-la de Nickolas Butler que es publica en català.