Before, During, After

Name: Before, During, After
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Richard Bausch
ISBN: 9781629239040

Author: Richard Bausch

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 12 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 08/12/2014

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

When Natasha, a talented young artist working as a congressional aide, meets Michael Faulk, an Episcopalian priest struggling with his faith, the stars seem to align. Within months they are engaged. Shortly before their wedding, while Natasha is vacationing in Jamaica and Faulk is in New York attending the wedding of a family friend, the terrorist attacks of September 11 shatter the tranquility of the nation's summer. Convinced that Faulk is dead, Natasha makes an error in judgment that leads to a private trauma. A few days later, she and Faulk are reunited, but the horror of that day and Natasha's inability to speak of it inexorably divide their relationship. They move to Memphis and begin their new life together, but their marriage quickly descends into repression, anxiety, and suspicion.

About Richard Bausch

Richard Bausch is the award-winning author of eleven novels and seven volumes of short stories. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Playboy, GQ, Harper's Magazine, and other publications, and has been featured in numerous best-of collections, including The O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and New Stories from the South. He is chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is the Moss Chair of Excellence in the Writer's Workshop of the University of Memphis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron

Bausch's 12th novel, presents an uncanny invocation of what it felt like when our lives split into pre- and post-9/11. It’s not just his selection of iconic TV images and news reports, although they have the creepy familiarity of half-remembered dreams. In the lives of a small group of smart, reflec......more

Goodreads review by Laura

“Before, During, After” is a love story written in counterpoint to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Our lovers, Michael and Natasha, meet at a political dinner. Michael is a divorced Episcopalian priest who is questioning his calling and Natasha , 16 years his junior, is still battling depressio......more

Goodreads review by Roger

Falling Woman If you have managed to avoid reading other reviews, the product description, or the jacket copy of the book, I strongly suggest you continue to avoid them, and read only this first paragraph of my review. This is a well-written love story between a woman of 32 and a man of 48, whose rom......more

Goodreads review by Kasa

Set against the trauma of 9/11, this novel deals with the effect of that world changing catastrophe on two ordinary people. Natasha and Michael meet and each sees in the other a chance for redemption. Both have reached pivotal points in their lives and are dealing with unresolved baggage. I disagree......more