Think of England: A Novel

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Simon and Schuster, May 6, 2003 - Fiction - 272 pages
From the author of In the Gloaming and Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark’s powerful and emotional debut novel traces one young woman’s reckoning with a childhood tragedy set during mid-1960s America and 1970s London.

Two cataclysmic events occur on February 9, 1964. The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and later that night, nine-year-old Jane MacLeod's life changes forever. It has been said that children are good observers but poor interpreters and Jane's interpretation of the events of that evening shapes her life in ways she doesn't recognize.

Think of England follows Jane from an intense love affair in the ex-pat scene in punk-era London to working motherhood in New York to a family reunion in the country—and a reckoning with the ghost that has stood between her and her dreams of a happy family.
 

Contents

Section 1
8
Section 2
11
Section 3
23
Section 4
41
Section 5
50
Section 6
63
Section 7
123
Section 8
149
Section 9
169
Section 10
211
Section 11
222
Section 12
235
Section 13
250
Section 14
259
Section 15
265
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About the author (2003)

Alice Elliott Dark is the author the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England, as well as two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. Her award-winning story “In the Gloaming” was made into two films and was chosen for inclusion in Best American Stories of the Century. Dark is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is an associate professor at Rutgers-Newark in the MFA program.

Bibliographic information

TitleThink of England: A Novel
AuthorAlice Elliott Dark
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 2003
ISBN0743234979, 9780743234979
Length272 pages
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