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A story of an old man and an old woman--brother and sister--living together on a farm in Vermont.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative.

October Light is one of John Gardner's masterworks... Read Full Overview

A story of an old man and an old woman--brother and sister--living together on a farm in Vermont.

A story of an old man and an old woman--brother and sister--living together on a farm in Vermont.

A story of an old man and an old woman--brother and sister--living together on a farm in Vermont.