Late Air, Jaclyn Gilbert
Late Air, Jaclyn Gilbert
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Late Air

Author: Jaclyn Gilbert

Narrator: George Newbern, Cinelle Barnes

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/13/2018

Synopsis

Jaclyn Gilbert’s piercing and lyrically compelling debut novel about marriage, loss, and finding the path home again.Murray has always known how to suppress his pain.In the shadows of a predawn run, a man tries to escape what he can’t control: His failed marriage. Grief. Even his own weakness. Murray is a college running coach insistent on his relentless training regimen and obsessed with his star athlete—until he finds her crumpled and unresponsive during a routine practice one morning.Unable to avoid or outrun reality, Murray is forced to face the consequences of a terrible accident from the past…and his own increasingly tenuous grip on life.In her debut novel, author Jaclyn Gilbert weaves together the strands of two lives that form a union as finely nuanced and delicate as a spider’s web―and just as vulnerable. Following the relationship of Murray and his ex-wife, Nancy, in alternating narratives, we experience their early moments of hope and desire as well as their fears and failings. With poignancy and grace, Late Air traces the collapse of a marriage, exhausted by time and trauma, and one couple’s journey to regain their footing.

About Jaclyn Gilbert

After completing her BA at Yale University, Jaclyn Gilbert went on to receive an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Since then, she has received a research fellowship from the New York Public Library and contributed to the Bread Loaf, Colgate, and Tin House writers’ conferences. Jaclyn has also led writing workshops at the Valhalla Correctional Facility, the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and Curious-on-Hudson in Dobbs Ferry, New York.Jaclyn lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her dog, Phin. Late Air is her first novel. For more information about Jaclyn, visit her website at www.JaclynGilbert.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lolly K Dandeneau on October 24, 2018

via my blog: [URL not allowed] 'Murray’s fist tightened over his watch, numbers slipping like sand.' What began as a romantic, surprising love in Paris when Murray (a marathon runner, olympic competitor, coach for Yale) and Nancy ( literary archivist) first meet in a cafe, turns i......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on November 10, 2018

Beautifully written but terribly sad. Time shifts back and forth as Gilbert tells the story of Murray and Nancy, divorced in the present but still tied to one another in so many ways. Murray, a coach, begins to both reflect and decompensated when his star runner, Becky, is horribly injured in a frea......more

Goodreads review by Reggie on September 23, 2018

The writer, Gilbert, captivates the reader with her spirit and her sense of losses in life. Late Air is not as focused on running as it is about what happens when ones’ competitive personality gets in the way of love and fails miserably in dealing with losses in life. Whether you’re competing in a s......more

Goodreads review by Carly on November 20, 2018

Thank you to Amazon Publishing and Netgalley for my free digital review copy! It has taken me a while to get to this review and I'm still very unsure how I feel. I thought this was such a raw, unscripted look at grief and the many ways a marriage can crumble and fail. Murray and Nancy are so differen......more

Goodreads review by Marci on January 06, 2019

Looovved! Gilbert’s ability to draw you into each characters emotional turmoil is spot-on...Particularly, the relationship of Murray and his wife, Nancy and the difficulties that they endure while Murray struggles to maintain control and professionalism as a college running coach dealing with an unb......more

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