# Elizabeth & After: A Novel, Vol. 1

By **Matt Cohen**

- ISBN-13: 9780756795283
- Publisher: Diane Pub Co
- Pages: 370
- Published: 1 Jan 1999
- Language: en
- Categories: Fiction, Family & Relationships, Romans, Literature & Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Literary, General, Forgiveness, Mothers, fathers and daughters, Death, Relations entre hommes et femmes, nouvelles, Accident victims, Middle-aged men, Vie urbaine

## About this book

Cohen's final novel is a wise & triumphant story of one man's efforts to repair himself & the lives of those around him. It tells the touching story of Carl McKelvey, who in mid-life returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol & violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, & to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident. Carl's only problem is that West Gull won't have him. Hesitant to forgive his family's tragic legacy, the community still remembers his mother's radiant warmth, her popularity, & the suspicious circumstances of her passing. Carl realizes that it is up to his own heart, & the hearts of those in West Gull, to allow him a measure of forgiveness.

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