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The Afterglow [Paperback]

Anthony Cartwright (Author)

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April 1, 2004
Years after the death of toddler Adam, a family is bound together in sadness and joy as they fight to overcome feeling haunted by that tragic day
 
Meet the family: there's Luke at work at Paradise Meatpacking, out on the town with Jamie, hitting the bars with his unnerving mate Risley, and back in bed with his ex-fiancee. Despite his actions, he knows he can count on his parents to bail him out of trouble, or for his sister Kerry to have his back and give him sound advice, as they all struggle to understand and prevail above an untimely death years before.

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"No doubt about it. Anthony Cartwright can certainly write. This is a painfully honest and accomplished first novel, a grimly realistic account of a working-class Black Country family at home and at work and at play, so utterly faithful to the world it sets out to recreate that one has to admire it. Vivid and dramatic, it penetrates beneath the skin of young and old. We are given no more than the remnants of the old working-class world of warmth and solidarity, one that has now had its heart torn out, but what afterglow there is comes from the portrait of the mother, Mary, and her 'little victories of life over death.'"

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Anthony Cartwright is the author of Heartland.

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