The All of It: A Novel (13 page)

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Authors: Jeannette Haien

Tags: #General, #Fiction, #Literary, #Brothers and Sisters, #Confession, #Family Life

“So goodnight then, Enda dear.”

“You’ll drive carefully, won’t you.”

“I will.”

She livened and teased: “For the salmon’s sake, of course.” But her face was serious.

“I’ll just watch you into the house,” he said.

She crossed the yard slowly. From the door, she waved.

He called out again, “Goodnight, Enda,” then turned the wheel hard to the right and started off down the track of the moonlit, homing lane.

About the Author

J
EANNETTE
H
AIEN
is well known in the United States and Europe as a concert pianist and teacher. She and her husband, a lawyer, live in Manhattan and at their summer home in Connemara, Ireland. Her new novel is called
Matters of Chance
.

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Praise
for Jeannette Haien’s
The All of It

“The only book I know in which innocence follows experience. A truly amazing thing.”

—Mark Strand

“What a beautiful little novel—perfection itself…A distinct and glorious triumph.”

—Guy Davenport

“
The All of It
…is what a fellow reviewer friend of mine calls ‘a good read,’ and another friend would call ‘a find.’ Lovers of literary jargon might dub it a ‘gem,’ or a ‘minor masterpiece.’ It is all of these cliches and more…. You cannot help being impressed by this almost mythic story of secret lives and illicit loves.”

—Doris Grumbach, National Public Radio

“Beautiful in its simplicity and directness, a gem of a novel.”

—Amanda Heller,
Boston Globe

“The story it tells makes one’s breath quicken. What an extraordinary novel! I wouldn’t say there are many novels of moral passion around…. But when one reads one, one remembers what a real novel can be.”

—Paula Fox

“…the imaginative leap into lives of great simplicity and harshness is triumphantly achieved.”

—Financial Times

“Jeannette Haien’s first novel possesses the clear tone and the unpretentious manner which only the best writing achieves…. It cannot be too highly recommended.”

—The Literary Review

Copyright

THE ALL OF IT
. Copyright © 1986 by Jeannette Haien. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition August 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-197813-5

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