After You've Gone

by Jeffrey Lent

Book Overview

After You've Gone in paperback, it is a moving, sublime love story set in the cataclysmic decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Henry Dorn has spent years building a family, but it only takes a single afternoon for it to fall apart. Abruptly widowed of the love of his life, Henry buys a steamer ticket for Amsterdam, the city of his heritage, hoping to start life anew. But nothing could have prepared him for the woman he meets on the ship:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802144551
• ISBN13: 9780802144553
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

another excellent story by Jeffrey Lent

can't say enough about the books of this author. Have read all of them and have never been disappointed. He spins a good yarn that resounds in your mind long after completion. Wonderful depth of character.

Jeffrey Lent does it again

Someone once said that Cormac McCarthy could write instructions on how to operate a microwave and it would be a good read. I think the same thing can be said of Jeffrey Lent. Each of his novels have been so different that I think it is impossible to compare them, one to another. In this novel a man who has lead a fairly normal life with a successful career and grown children is faced with a sudden terrible accident and finds himself alone. Lent takes the reader back through parts of the characters childhood, his marriage, his failure to come to terms with his sons addiction, and sets him on a course of refinding himself. I thought the best phrase of the whole book was "how alone a person lives", this somehow makes the reader identify with that phrase. The ending while unexpected was, to me, the only way it could have ended, perhaps giving hope that there is grace in each decision we make along the way.

Lent does it again!!

Jeffrey Lent's new novel, AFTER YOU'VE GONE is not only a great love story it's also a indepth look at a man searching for a new start, a new life after being left in the wake of a diaster that rocks his very world. Lent's prose embraces the reader and his sense of place as he writes about different countries is just as pleasing as watching his characters sift through their lives for reason. Jeffrey Lent has done it again with this novel. He is one of the best American writers writing today and he deserves to be read. Buy this book, read it, charish it then read it again.