ISBN: 0-88739-177-X
274 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $16.50
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In the Failing Light
David Tillman
Out in time for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month-October-In the Failing Light, unique in that it's a story of breast cancer told from the husband's point of view, spares the reader no details and its tone is exquisite-by the end, you'll not only have fallen in love with the author's unnamed wife, you'll be thankful Mr. Tillman wrote this beautiful book.
Review: "Tillman writes mostly in dialogue, from routine conversations to a couple's heartfelt exchanges of love and fear. After the wife is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the account of the couple's existence comes to stand for life itself. Nearly everything that can go wrong does....In a classic instance of bureaucratic indifference, the school district refuses to let the couple's daughter use a school bus (she lives 20 feet outside the busing boundary). Tillman's memoir makes two major points: love can endure all stresses and pressures, and technology really needs tempering with humanity."
Booklist
"Eloquent and heartbreaking, this is an account of the toll cancer took on the lives of the author and his wife, who recently died of the disease....Although there have been other memoirs by a surviving spouse, what distinguishes this one is Tillmans' candid emphasis on how he tried to deny the harsh reality of the disease that was killing his wife."
Publishers Weekly
"This is a marvelous story with a predictable but still wrenching conclusion. Men who love their wives and wives who may have taken their husbands for granted will see themselves on these pages. Beautifully written, this is highly recommended...."
Library Journal
Bio: DAVID TILLMAN lives in Massachusetts with his nine-year-old daughter and their three bunnies. He reads novels, writes plays, short stories, and memoirs, and is a systems consultant to Boston Investment firms.
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