A Kind of Careful Brightness

By Brian W. Budzynski and Brian Walter Budzynski

In 1938, the nation is still reeling from the concussive effects of the Great Depression: Men out of work, jobs that never came back. Richard Meywether has reached the stage where life inexorably demands a firm course. But unemployed, casually alcoholic, and living alone in a converted hotel in Chicago, Meywether can find no solid ground.When an invitation arrives from Todd Hanover, his old college roommate, to attend a New Year's Eve party at his home in the very town Meywether himself left under a shroud of horrible loss more than a decade before, there is little excuse not to accept-not even the distant memory, now dimly resurrected, of a stolen moment with Dottie Hanover, and the unwelcome suspicion that a remote place in his youthful heart may yet sustain an impossible desire.As in the work of Richard Yates, John Cheever, and William Maxwell, this intimate, unforgettable novel is a compassionate portrayal of flawed characters and the quiet desperation that thwarts even the most earnest of passions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1983056375
• ISBN13: 9781983056376
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"