Call It a Gift: (A Novel)

By Valerie Hobbs

Book Overview

In Valerie Hobb s novel, Jeronimo is seventy-seven and Emily eighty-two when they meet. It is not despite their age but because of it that theirs is a story of passion, and finally of grace. Jeronimo... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874176123
• ISBN13: 9780874176124
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Fine tale, fine writing

A gentle tale, with spirit and chutzpah, like its characters, Call it a Gift charms with its unlikely plot twists, details such as an octagenarian "escaping" down a bedroom ladder with her new boyfriend, and deep, honest emotion. The web of characters, some of whom you never meet, sparkles with believable middle-aged children, remembered friends and family. Though there is a strongly bitter-sweet flavor to much of the story, which centers around the protagonists coming to grips with loss, it is neither maudlin nor overly sentimental, and in fact shows a great deal of sensitive humor in the telling. A fine story, with memorable characters.