Life Estates Paperback by Shelby Hearon

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (1995-04-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 240 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679757962
• Item Weight: 255.15 grams
• Dimensions: 20.32 x 13.18 x 1.27 cm

Sarah and Harriet have led parallel lives ever since they went to boarding school together. Now in their fifties, they are widowed within three months of each other. Sarah and Harriet gradually come to terms with each other, the men they buried and the life that continues to go on around them.

About the Author

Shelby Hearon was born in Marion, Kentucky, lived for many years in Texas and New York, and now makes her home in Burlington, Vermont. She is the author of sixteen novels, including Footprints, Life Estates, and Owning Jolene, which won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award. She has received an Ingram Merrill grant as well as fellowships for fiction from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and she has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters fiction award. She is the mother of a grown daughter and son.