The Sentimentalists (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Henry: Add a description of this character.
• Helen
• Owen
• Clark Haskell
• Napoleon Haskell
• Sophia: Helen's daughter
• Hill
• Higgins
• Bean

Quotes edit see section history

• “If you could remember one thing and have that be your life, what would it be?”

  Napolean Haskell

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• So that in the end it is not so much what has been subtracted from a life that really matters, but the distances, instead, between the things which remain.

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• foolish to ask for too much out of life, afterwards only to live in the wake of that expectation, an irreducible disappointment. But

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• pain, I thought now, could be greater than to realize that even the practical reality for which you had assumed to settle upon, did not hold – that even that was illusory?

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• Would it not be better, then, to set your sights on some more fantastic and rare dream from which even in failing you might take some comfort in having once aspired?

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• I find it difficult to believe that anything is ever buried in the way that I had once supposed. I believe

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• “If you could remember one thing and have that be your life, what would it be?”

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• No, it had to do, instead, I think – that sadness – with those certain smells or shapes or colours that call up a moment, or a feeling, just a whiff of one, that you can’t quite place. Just something

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• to live as we do at such a far remove from ourselves, it becomes possible – no, unavoidable at times – to float over certain essential objects without noticing them

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• Once my father said, women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened. This

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• the magic lantern pictures of my mind where they are just a simple shadow-play of death, which someday, and far too soon, will have us all freely sailing there.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

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• California
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First Sentence edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Bishop's Man, and followed by Half-Blood Blues.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Johanna Shively Skibsrud (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Giller Prize (2010)

Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Wikipedia
• Gaspereau Press