In the Gloaming (Story) by Dark, Alice Elliott
In the Gloaming (Story) by Dark, Alice Elliott

In the Gloaming (Story)

CHOSEN AS A BEST SHORT STORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY BY JOHN UPDIKE THE BASIS FOR THE...
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Author: Alice Elliott Dark
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In the Gloaming (Story) by Dark, Alice Elliott

In the Gloaming (Story)

$24.00
In the Gloaming (Story) by Dark, Alice Elliott

In the Gloaming (Story)

$24.00
Author: Alice Elliott Dark
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
CHOSEN AS A BEST SHORT STORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY BY JOHN UPDIKE

THE BASIS FOR THE AWARD-WINNING HBO FILM FEATURING GLENN CLOSE AND ROBERT SEAN LEONARD

Now in a stand-alone edition, Alice Elliott Dark's celebrated and masterful work of literary short fiction, In the Gloaming depicts a loving mother, Janet, caring for her adult son, Laird, in the last months of his life during the early AIDS era.

The gloaming is the hour of changing light at dawn or dusk, when the world is as purple as the Scottish Highlands on a summer night. As mother and son sit together in the gathering darkness, a powerfully intimate conversation unfolds between them that shifts their understanding of each other and gives them strength for their final farewell.

In austerely beautiful prose, Dark lays bare the emotional turmoil and deep familial bonds between her characters, revealing the ache of adoration and devotion that so poignantly marks our inner lives.

With a new afterword from the author, this special stand-alone edition of In the Gloaming is a part of the Scribner Shorts program.

Author: Alice Elliott Dark
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 09/22/2026
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781668227763

About the Author
Alice Elliott Dark is the author the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England, and two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. She is the director of Rutgers-Newark MFA program.
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