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Time in Its Flight
is a stirring story of epic proportions about passion, love, and a family's
will to survive. When Edna Dickinson and Dr. John Steele marry, they embark
on a perilous journey. Time, in its endless flight, takes many things from
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They and the children they raise
battle against the ravages of nature and disease and the anguish of seemingly
unbearable loss. But through the silent touches of time, their courage and
love for each other are resources that allow them not only to endure the
burdens of life, but to find their way to contentment in what seems an
antagonistic world.
Susan Schaeffer's novel is enriched by precise detail, the beauty of the
New England landscape, and an unfailing narrative skill. It speaks of the
underlying continuity of life, of the desire for life that lies at the very
heart of the human struggle. As she did so beautifully in ANYA, Schaeffer
presents a picture of people carving out a daily lie against the monumental
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A MAIN SELECTION OF
THE BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB
"This novel astonishes us because at first it seems so old-fashioned, so
remote from the childish neurotic whine that characterizes much modish American
fiction. Schaeffer contrives to turn time backward in its flight, to give
us the feeling, the shape of a whole stubborn Yankee rural culture. This
she manages...by an extraodinary phonographic genius. These are real voices,
dozens of them...in a way we do not read this book, we overhear it...TIME
IN ITS FLIGHT cannot leave you quite unchanged. Once it is read, you have
added not to your acquaintances, but to that small number of human beings,
real or imaginary, whom you love because you truly understand them. This
is a book into which we may sink and be absorbed and be engulfed and at last
make our own."
Clifton Fadiman |
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