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Struggling to keep his marriage to his college sweetheart afloat, Jeremiah Mason receives a call that turns his whole world upside-down: Hannah, a beautiful, rebellious blues singer--and his former love--has been killed in a car crash.
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Overview

Struggling to keep his marriage to his college sweetheart afloat, Jeremiah Mason receives a call that turns his whole world upside-down: Hannah, a beautiful, rebellious blues singer--and his former love--has been killed in a car crash.
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Editorial Reviews

Zofia Smardz
Farrington succeeds beautifully in creating a wistful poetic meditation on the unfathomable nature of love. -- New York Times Book Review
Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Fire imagery flares throughout Farrington's incandescent second novel (after "The California Book of the Dead"), in which narrator Jeremy Mason, a painter, mulls over the sudden death of his former lover, the blues-singing Hannah of the title, and journeys with their love-child to Nebraska to identify her body. This tale unfolds alongside the story of the passionate couple, of Jeremy's subsequent marriage to nurturing LeeAnne and of the remarkable, inextricable intertwining of the lives of the three adults. Spanning the mid-1970s to the present, the narrative captures the self-absorption, nave insights and fresh intimacies of college years, and the sometimes painful wisdom and liberating self-knowledge that come with growing up. Equally at home describing the artist's challenge in the face of a blank canvas or making up his own adult-contemporary version of the blues, Farrington's images and metaphors favor a purple palette (in both senses), but even so he leads us on a memorable, refreshingly lucid expedition across two decades and vast terrains of human connection: love, parenting, friendship and marriage.
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The author of the quirky "California Book of the Dead" (1997) offers a more somber look at those seeking salvation, whether in the arms of a lover or on the spiritual plane. Skipping back and forth in time, the story begins in contemporary San Francisco when Jeremiah Mason receives an early morning call notifying him of the car crash death of Hannah, a former lover. He journeys to Nebraska to make funeral arrangements, and while doing so inescapably thinks back on their stormy relationship, which spanned decades and produced a son. It began when a young Jeremiah was struggling to make a reputation as a painter and an equally young Hannah was attempting to make her way as a blues singer. Jeremiah and Hannah became lovers, then drifted apart. Jeremiah later married LeeAnne, a psychologist, but eventually left her to reunite with Hannah. Out of that reunion came Sammy, a son that Jeremiah and LeeAnne end up raising when Hannah again departs. In between are all the joys and heartaches of domestic life Jeremiah's struggles with an artistic career, Hannah's decision to give up music for spiritual fulfillment in Berkeley, LeeAnne's changing career. Jeremiah's recollections of the pair's struggles to gain self-knowledge and atonement are poignant, made all the more so by the knowledge of Hannah's death. Her vibrant influence on those who loved her becomes clear in her absence. Sammy, now eight years old and as gifted musically as his mother was, accompanies his father to Nebraska. While on the road, the two try to come to terms with her life and death, but she remains an elusive figure to them (and to the reader), an archetypal free-spirit who eludes definition. Farrington again serves up adistinctive reflection of the times while managing to create unself-conscious, engaging characters. A fine second novel that serves as a quiet meditation on the reaches of love.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780609602812
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/19/1998
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 5.38 (w) x 7.96 (h) x 0.98 (d)

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