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A wealthy, middle-aged, and enormously corpulent son of “Old New York”, Bone repeatedly finds himself unable to raise the subject of his affections, and is thwarted by the mercurial Elizabeth and their devious mutual friend, George Motley.
A Long Day’s Dying revolves around the lives of seven characters—at their center, Tristram Bone: a wealthy, middle-aged, and enormously corpulent bachelor in possession of a pet monkey and attended by his elderly German housekeeper, Emma.
- Frederick Buechner
- 1950
A Long Day's Dying is a mid-twentieth-century Jamesian novel that foreshadows many of the themes in Mr. Buechner's later writing—faith, trust, and the complex relations of family and friends. The story follows Tristram Bone, a rotund man of wealth and "organized leisure" but a failure with women, and Elizabeth Poor, a rich, charming, and ...
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- Frederick Buechner
A Long Day’s Dying Buechner’s acclaimed debut novel follows Tristram Bone—a rotund man of wealth and leisure but a failure with women—and Elizabeth Poor—a rich, charming, and beautiful widow—through a series of racy encounters with friends and family, affairs both real and imagined, gossip, jealousy, and innuendo.
Oct 20, 2010 · A long day's dying. by. Buechner, Frederick, 1926-. Publication date. 1950. Topics. Rejection (Psychology), Unrequited love, Overweight men, Rich people, Widows. Publisher. New York : A.A. Knopf.
Strange company, this? Well, just try to jump into Buechner in media res and see if the clues are not there. His small but indelible cast of characters includes Tristram Bone (an obese, wealthy, unlucky in love eloquent man) who lives with his German housekeeper Emma and his pet monkey Simon.
- Frederick Buechner
On the most simple reading, it is the story of one day in the history of a small German town, told with utter disregard for orthodox chronology and sequence. The year is 1945, and the life of the town is as diseased and sluggish as its choked sewers.
