The Grace That Keeps This World

Gary and Susan Hazen--high school sweethearts married for many years, born and bred in the Adirondack community of Lost Lake--live a simple and honest life and have instilled values in their two grown sons by example. But despite their efforts, Gary senses that his sons are starting to pull away and can't help but feel he is at fault. His younger son, Kevin, has ambitions that extend far beyond the snowy edges of their small town. And his elder, Gary David, so fears disappointing his father that he is keeping an important part of his life secret.

The Grace That Keeps This World is a story about family, community, and the shared values that underlie and sustain human relationships. And ultimately, it is a tale of profound loss, human fallibility, and the love--romantic, neighborly, or familial--that can sometimes blur our line of vision.

A Book Sense pick

Includes a new essay by the author and a preview chapter of his forthcoming novel, Cotton Song.

Author: Tom Bailey
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 07/25/2006
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780307238023

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 105356 / Grace That Keeps This World: A Novel

About the Author
Tom Bailey is the author of Crow Man, a collection of short stories, and A Short Story Writer's Companion, and the editor of On Writing Short Stories. He lives with his wife and three children in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, where he teaches in the creative writing program at Susquehanna University. This is his first novel.