Jill McCorkle published her first two novels on the same day in
1984. Of these novels, the New York Times Book Review said: "one
suspects the author of The Cheer Leader is a born novelist. With
July 7th, she is also a full grown one." Since then she has
published five other novels--most recently, Hieroglyphics-- and
four collections of short stories. Five of her books have been
named New York Times notable books and four of her stories have
appeared in Best American Short Stories. McCorkle has received the
New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for
Excellence in Literature, the North Carolina Award for Literature
and the Thomas Wolfe Prize; she was recently inducted into the NC
Literary Hall of Fame. McCorkle has taught at Harvard, Brandeis and
NC State where she remains affiliated with the MFA Program in
creative writing and she is core faculty in the Bennington Writing
Seminars.
"Who knew death, regret, and lengthy ruminations about days past could add up to a novel this vibrant, hopeful, and compelling? . . . Gorgeously written . . . McCorkle's greatest gift is in illuminating the countless tiny moments that make up our time on Earth." --O: The Oprah Magazine"Clever, bighearted, and wise." --Vanity Fair"The elderly residents of Pine Haven live and yearn and challenge one another with an exuberance that jumps off the page."--The New York Times "Home Garden" section"Leave it to McCorkle to plumb the ultimate new beginning in this down-home, Southern-style Book of the Dead. Illuminating, reassuring, and enlarging our understanding of the crossing from this world to the next, her novel sings with the mystical, the magical and the fragility of this thing called life." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"Balances humor and sorrow." --NPR's All Things Considered"A vividly voiced round-robin of interlocking stories set in and around a North Carolina retirement home . . . Great . . . Sharply real." --Entertainment Weekly"Funny and painful, Life After Life explores not dying, but rather the mysteries of living -- the second chances, the human connection, the love. The result is an impressive and poignant interweaving of vibrant characters; overlapping tales create a whole that is greater than the separate parts. McCorkle returns to the novel with a deeper wisdom and moral intensity. With a Southern flair, she invites the reader to muse on what matters most in the days we are given. Was it worth the wait? In a word, yes." --Richmond Times-Dispatch "McCorkle's masterful microcosm invokes profound sadness, harsh insight and guffaws, often on the same page." --Kirkus Reviews"A powerful gift for dialogue has always animated Jill McCorkle's fiction, and here we hear some astonishing voices . . . As readers, we feel honored to witness their passages." --The Boston Globe"A story and characters that readers won't soon forget." --Minneapolis Star Tribune--Unpublished endorsements
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