First Light

First Light

by Charles Baxter
First Light

First Light

by Charles Baxter

Paperback(Reprint)

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Overview

As two grown siblings explore their complicated history over one hot Fourth of July weekend, they come to terms with the experiences that put such distance between them and discover the imperfect love that ties them—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune).

Hugh Welch has cared for his little sister Dorsey ever since they were children, when Dorsey looked at him as though he were a god. But when Dorsey returns to their small Michigan hometown with a successful career as an astrophysicist and a happy family life, Hugh, who has a long habit of worrying about his sister, realizes that it’s his own life he has to cure, not Dorsey’s.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307948519
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/14/2012
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), The Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, and Shadow Play, and the collections Gryphon, Believers, A Relative Stranger, Through the Safety Net, and Harmony of the World. He has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Hometown:

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date of Birth:

May 13, 1947

Place of Birth:

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Education:

B. A., Macalester College, 1969; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1974

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J. M. Coepzee

"A book one reads with pleasure from the first word to the last for the delicacy and truth of its perceptions."

Susan Kenney

"He gives so much knowledge and depth and feeling to his characters and through them, to the reader, that the whole fabric of the novel, from firecrackers in the back yard to the Big Bang theory of the universe, seems to shimmer with a luminous clarity of detail that is absolutely breathtaking."

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