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The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
Terri-Lynne DeFino
William Morrow
June 2018
On Sale: June 12, 2018
336 pages
ISBN: 0062742671
EAN: 9780062742674
Kindle: B0711XF4XK
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Women's Fiction
A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for
literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and
almost magically change the lives of the people around
them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life
to excess—lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary
rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for
the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among
kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone
but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his
life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every
desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue
greatness. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of
writer's block that distresses him much more than his
precarious health. Set on the water in one of New England's most beautiful
locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically
for elderly writers needing a place to live out their
golden years—or final days—in understated luxury and
surrounded by congenial literary company. A faithful
staff of nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and
are drawn into their orbit, as they are forced to reckon
with their own life stories. Among them are Cecibel
Bringer, a young woman who knows first-hand the cost of
chasing excess. A terrible accident destroyed her face
and her sister in a split-second decision that Cecibel
can never forgive, though she has tried to forget. Living
quietly as an orderly, refusing to risk again the cost of
love, Cecibel never anticipated the impact of meeting her
favorite writer, Alfonse Carducci—or the effect he would
have on her existence. In Cecibel, Alfonse finds a muse
who returns him to the passion he thought he lost. As the
words flow from him, weaving a tale taken up by the other
residents of the Pen, Cecibel is reawakened to the idea
of love and forgiveness. As the edges between story and reality blur, a world
within a world is created. It’s a place where the old are
made young, the damaged are made whole, and anything is
possible….
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Re: The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
This sounds absolutely fabulous! Right up my alley! Thanks
for the review!
(Kathleen Bylsma 4:23pm August 17, 2018)
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