The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices

by Margaret Gibson and Margaret Gibson

Book Overview

In The Vigil, Margaret Gibson adroitly interweaves the voices of four women, mothers and daughters of three generations, who, during the course of a single day, reveal the depths of the legacy of alcoholism in their family. On this one day of startling revelations, the full extent of the family's secrets, kept still in the sweep of the years, begins to emerge. As the history of loss and regret unfolds, the women begin to sense those things within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807118680
• ISBN13: 9780807118689
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"