The first day / Phil Harrison.
The fallout from an affair between a married pastor and a young Beckett scholar has unexpected and explosive consequences for their son decades later, challenging his family's faith and the carefully controlled life he has built.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781328849663
- ISBN: 132884966X
- Physical Description: 214 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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- Baker & Taylor
The fallout from an affair between a married pastor and a young Beckett scholar has unexpected and explosive consequences for their son decades later, challenging his family's faith and the carefully controlled life he has built. By the award-winning screenwriter ofThe Good Man . 30,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"Outside an East Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection both intellectual and erotic. When Anna becomes pregnant, the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout, when it finally comes, is shocking. More than thirty years later, Sam, their son, is in New York, living a steady, guarded life, his childhood and family safely abandoned. But when thepast once more crashes into his life, he is forced to confront the fears he has kept close all these years."-- - Baker & Taylor
The fallout from an affair between a married pastor and a young Beckett scholar has unexpected and explosive consequences for their son decades later, challenging his family's faith and the carefully controlled life he has built. - HoughtonSet in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences'the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways
- HoughtonSet in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences—the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways
Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection fueled by their respective love of Christ and Beckett. When Anna falls pregnant the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout when it finally comes is shocking, cruel, and violent.
Over thirty years later Sam, their son, is in New York, living a steady, guarded life, his childhood and family safely abandoned. But the sins of the fathers are visited often on their children, and the past crashes into his life as violently as in his youth. He is forced to confront the fears he has kept close all these years.
The First Dayis the story of an affair and its consequences—on family and on faith. It is an intense, questioning novel of the search to understand our origins and to free ourselves from the burdens of our early years. It's a stunning debut, meditative and compelling, incantatory, at times devastating and always mesmerizing. - HoughtonSet in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences—the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways
- HoughtonSet in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences'the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways
Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection fueled by their respective love of Christ and Beckett. When Anna falls pregnant the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout when it finally comes is shocking, cruel, and violent.
Over thirty years later Sam, their son, is in New York, living a steady, guarded life, his childhood and family safely abandoned. But the sins of the fathers are visited often on their children, and the past crashes into his life as violently as in his youth. He is forced to confront the fears he has kept close all these years.
The First Dayis the story of an affair and its consequences'on family and on faith. It is an intense, questioning novel of the search to understand our origins and to free ourselves from the burdens of our early years. It's a stunning debut, meditative and compelling, incantatory, at times devastating and always mesmerizing.