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A Conference of Victims: A Novella

A Conference of Victims: A Novella

Berriault, Gina

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1640095969
ISBN13: 9781640095960
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Apr 25 2023
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
First published in 1966, A Conference of Victims charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness, showing how one terrible act can possess a family

Hal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife, a supportive family, and a devoted mother. Friendly, intelligent, successful, he is a man on the rise--until he is caught in an affair with a high school girl and commits suicide. On election day the reporters have forgotten him, and the radio doesn't mention his name.

Around Hal's hometown, however, a handful of people continue lives that will be forever haunted by his memory. Naomi who is thrown nearly out of her mind by her brother's suicide questions even her own reason for living.

Gina Berriault's work as a storywriter of great psychological empathy and extraordinary elegance and subtlety was celebrated widely at the end of her life and, with this reissue of one of her more celebrated short novels, her work can be discovered by a new generation of readers.

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