Living to Tell
""Only in his head did Professor Mabie call his son a murderer....He did it...with something like hard-heartedness, which was to prevent him from something like total despair.""
None of the Mabie family of Wichita, Kansas, could have imagined that the one son who exuded "the cosmetic loveliness of a saint" would kill his beloved grandmother in a drunk driving accident. But, after five years in prison, thirty-three-year-old Winston is returning to his childhood home and the family he left behind.
For thirty years, this family house has played so many roles in the lives of Professor Mabie (recently retired from the history department), Mrs. Mabie, and their three children; it has represented warmth, foreboding, entrapment, shelter. Now all the Mabies -- including one divorced daughter and two small children -- find themselves back
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Nelson | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |