by Nancy Huston
Already a critical success in France, Dolce Agonia is a scintillating dissection of modern life and death and love and friendship. A group of cosmopolitan friends in midlife gather in New England for a Thanksgiving dinner - and are trapped there when it snows. Sean, the Irish hard-drinking poet is their host, but hasn't told them he's dying of cancer. In fact none of them would be there if they didn't have the...
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