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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Before we sleep
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Lent, Jeffrey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  genre: Domestic fiction.
  genre: Historical fiction.
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 387 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from WWII to the dawning of the '60s--the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent's career. Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home, her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still asleep. She isn't so much running away as on a journey of discovery. She carries with her a packet of letters addressed to her mother from an old army buddy of her father's. She has only recently been told that Oliver, who she adores more than anyone, isn't her biological father. She hopes the letter's sender will have answers to her many questions. Before We Sleep moves gracefully between Katey's perspective on the road and her mother, Ruth's. Through Ruth's recollections, we learn of her courtship with Oliver, their marriage on the eve of war, and his return as a changed man. Oliver had always been a bit dreamy, but became more remote, finding solace most of all in repairing fiddles. There were adjustments, accommodations, sacrifices--but the family went on to find its own rhythms, satisfactions, and happiness. Now Katey's journey may rearrange the Snows' story. Set in a lovingly realized Vermont setting, tracking the changes that come with the turning of the seasons--and decades--and signaling the dawning of a new freedom as Katey moves out into a world in flux, Before We Sleep is a novel about family, about family secrets, and about the love that holds families together. It is also about the Greatest Generation as it moves into the very different era of the 1960s, and about the trauma of war that so profoundly weighed on both generations.
  abstract: Katey Snow slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home; her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still asleep. She isn't so much running away as on a journey of discovery, carrying a packet of letters addressed to her mother from an old army buddy of her father's. She has only recently been told that Oliver, who she adores more than anyone, isn't her biological father. Through Ruth's recollections, we learn of her courtship with Oliver, their marriage on the eve of war, and his return as a changed man.
  note: Jeffrey Lent.
  subject:
    topic: Fathers and daughters
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Family secrets
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Family secrets
  subject:
    topic: Fathers and daughters
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Sagas
  classification: PS3562.E4934 B44 2017
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Before we sleep
    name:
      name part: Lent, Jeffrey, author.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2017
    identifier: (DLC) 2016036369
  identifier: 9781620404997
  identifier: 1620404990
  identifier: 9781620405017
  identifier: 2016029724
  identifier: St Martins Pr, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy Us Hwy 15, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (212)6745151
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160805
    record change date: 20170519112338.0
    record identifier: in00003850379
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng