The Last Sweet Taste by Nova, Craig
The Last Sweet Taste by Nova, Craig

The Last Sweet Taste

"I seem tough, but I'm waiting for the one who can see right through me. I get...
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Author: Craig Nova
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Last Sweet Taste by Nova, Craig

The Last Sweet Taste

$35.98
The Last Sweet Taste by Nova, Craig

The Last Sweet Taste

$35.98
Author: Craig Nova
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
"I seem tough, but I'm waiting for the one who can see right through me. I get a little shaky thinking about this possibility," Anna Burke says. After receiving a serious health diagnosis, Anna isn't going to take it lying down. Instead, she sets out in search of something sweet and solid, an undeniable truth she can hold on to as she runs away from her home in the city, landing in a small town in Vermont.

There, Anna meets Noah and Cyrus Wolfe, a father-and-son duo of dynamiters hired to destroy the worst ice dam the town has faced in years. But when the blast goes wrong, neither father nor son can finish the job, and the only person who might be able to save the town is Anna herself.

The Last Sweet Taste is a story of discovering innocence in a difficult world. As Anna searches for truth and comfort, she finds herself among people whose quiet, humble lives offer the sweetness she has been longing for. A resonant story of resilience, unexpected love, and the small triumphs that arrive when everything seems lost, The Last Sweet Taste, as always, is worth the wait.

"Nova, a writer of profound attunement to place and psyche, portrays with solemnity and awe a forbidding land and people of reserve and dignity who have little but feel so much. With dynamite and a rogue river signaling life's precariousness and love as sweetness and agony, this is a galvanizing novel of hardscrabble tenderness."--Booklist (starred review)

Author: Craig Nova
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781648211812


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2026

About the Author
Craig Nova is the author of fifteen novels which have been translated into ten languages. He has received an Arts and Letters Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harper-Saxton Prize, and multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His short fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Men's Journal, Best American Short Stories series, and other publications. As a screenwriter he has worked for Touchstone Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, and other producers. A film was released in 2018 from his novel, Wetware. Nova is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
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