β Scribed by Berg, Elizabeth
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From the beloved bestselling author of Home Safe and The Year of Pleasures*,* comes a wonderful new novel about women and men reconnecting with one anotherand themselvesat their fortieth high school reunion.
To each of the men and women in The Last Time I Saw You, this reunion means something differenta last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear.
As the onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy Shauman, the reunion brings with it the possibility of finally attracting the attention of the class heartthrob, Pete Decker. For the ever self-reliant, ever left-out Mary Alice Mayhew, its a chance to reexamine a painful past. For LesterHeseenpfeffer, a veterinarian and widower, it is the hope of talking shop with a fellow vetor at least thats what he tells himself. For Candy Armstrong, the class beauty, its the hope of finding friendship before it is too late.
As Dorothy, Mary Alice, Lester, Candy, and the other classmates converge for the reunion dinner, four decades melt away: Desires and personalities from their youth reemerge, and new discoveries are made. For so much has happened to them all. And so much can still happen.
In this beautiful novel, Elizabeth Berg deftly weaves together stories of roads taken and not taken, choices made and opportunities missed, and the possibilities of second chances.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780749942731
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