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Story of a Million Years by David Huddle (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100395966051
ISBN-139780395966051
eBay Product ID (ePID)1080192
Product Key Features
Book TitleStory of a Million Years
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year1999
GenreFiction
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid Huddle
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12.7 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-032213
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"The Story of a Million Years filled my heart with crazy agitation-- so many memorable scenes, so perfectly balanced a story. How Huddle orchestrates such complex emotions and powerful incidents of young-adulthood is knock-you-over proof of his genius. He's such a splendid writer-- this novel rewards you in the utmost pleasing, disturbing, and yes, perhaps mysterious ways." -- Howard Norman, author of THE BIRD ARTIST and THE MUSEUM GUARD, "The Story of a Million Years filled my heart with crazy agitation-- so many memorable scenes, so perfectly balanced a story. How Huddle orchestrates such complex emotions and powerful incidents of young-adulthood is knock-you-over proof of his genius. He's such a splendid writer-- this novel rewards you in the utmost pleasing, disturbing, and yes, perhaps mysterious ways." -- Howard Norman, author of THE BIRD ARTIST and THE MUSEUM GUARD "David Huddle's first novel is masterful and often stunning, so carefully written that the words shimmer with purpose and necessity. Essentially the tale of two couples who have known each other since they were all teenagers, The Story of a Million Years follows Marcy and Allen, Uta and Jimmy as they try to keep going through storms of nostalgia, grief, manic lust. The foursome have been together so long that they all know the same songs. Sometimes Uta dreams about Allen, and Jimmy has long been convinced he loves Marcy, but as time moves on, these hushed-up desires become smooth and polished, like stones. Moving back and forth through and instances, Huddle brilliantly captures the sense of marriage as a system of secrets, in which certain memories and infidelities are held close like shields, talismans that protect the self from being subsumed altogether by the structures we build around love, the houses we build to contain our impulses. Like someone playing a song over and over again at different speeds, the author recapitulates key moments until they break apart. For Uta one such moment happens when she's in college, lost in Manhattan after her friends ditch her, wandering back to their apartment at dawn. She doesn't push the buzzer to wake her flaky friends. Instead she sleeps in the front hallway in a Uta's attachment to this moment is beautifully rendered in her down-to-earth, Lutheran-raised, sad-hearted voice. She remembers vividly "the crazy little bit of goodness that came into me in the front hall when I was standing there all by myself with my finger about to press the doorbell, when I knew I was safe, and when I decided not to disturb the sleepers. That was the closest I'll ever come to knowing what it feels like to be one of the really decent saints, like Saint Francis, or Saint Teresa of Lisieux. It was the only time I've ever had that feeling..." -- Emily White Amazon.com, "David Huddle's first novel is masterful and often stunning, so carefully written that the words shimmer with purpose and necessity. Essentially the tale of two couples who have known each other since they were all teenagers, The Story of a Million Years follows Marcy and Allen, Uta and Jimmy as they try to keep going through storms of nostalgia, grief, manic lust. The foursome have been together so long that they all know the same songs. Sometimes Uta dreams about Allen, and Jimmy has long been convinced he loves Marcy, but as time moves on, these hushed-up desires become smooth and polished, like stones. Moving back and forth through and instances, Huddle brilliantly captures the sense of marriage as a system of secrets, in which certain memories and infidelities are held close like shields, talismans that protect the self from being subsumed altogether by the structures we build around love, the houses we build to contain our impulses. Like someone playing a song over and over again at different speeds, the author recapitulates key moments until they break apart. For Uta one such moment happens when she's in college, lost in Manhattan after her friends ditch her, wandering back to their apartment at dawn. She doesn't push the buzzer to wake her flaky friends. Instead she sleeps in the front hallway in a Uta's attachment to this moment is beautifully rendered in her down-to-earth, Lutheran-raised, sad-hearted voice. She remembers vividly "the crazy little bit of goodness that came into me in the front hall when I was standing there all by myself with my finger about to press the doorbell, when I knew I was safe, and when I decided not to disturb the sleepers. That was the closest I'll ever come to knowing what it feels like to be one of the really decent saints, like Saint Francis, or Saint Teresa of Lisieux. It was the only time I've ever had that feeling..." -- Emily White
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition
Table Of ContentContents 1 Past My Future....................................................1 2 Past Perfect.....................................................22 3 A.B.C............................................................33 4 The Story of a Million Years.....................................60 5 Goodness.........................................................93 6 The Lesson......................................................107 7 Girly-Man Recapitulates.........................................124 8 Summer Afternoon................................................148 9 News............................................................170 10 Silk Dress.....................................................173
SynopsisIn his first novel, David Huddle tells a delicately nuanced story of relationships between men and women that is as old as human history itself. It begins with a startling secret affair between fifteen-year-old Marcy and the husband of her mother's best friend. Years later, the emotional fallout from the affair still echoes in unexpected ways through the lives of the people closest to Marcy: her husband and the couple who have remained their friends since high school. A multilayered tale unfolds through their eyes, in which each character seeks to recapture a kernel of long-forgotten goodness. In the tradition of John Updike and John Cheever, Huddle renders these complex relationships with clarity and depth. "For grownups with brains," said Richard Bausch of Huddle's earlier work. The same is true of The Story of a Million Years, a novel written with poetry, wisdom, and a masterly sense of humanity., Years after a 15-year-old girl begins an affair with the husband of her mother's best friend, the emotional fallout from the affair still echoes in unexpected ways through the lives of the people closest to her.
LC Classification NumberPS3558.U287S74 1999
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