Audiobook9 hours
The End of the Day
Written by Bill Clegg
Narrated by Bill Clegg
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a “delicate, deeply observed, and deftly crafted” (Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs) second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness.
A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn’t seen in forty-nine years.
A man arrives at a Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.
A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past.
These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface. It is in this moment that Bill Clegg reminds us how choices—to connect, to betray, to protect—become our legacy.
“Written in lyrical, beautiful prose that makes even waking up seem like a poetic event” (Good Morning America), this novel is a feat of storytelling, capturing sixty years within the framework of one fateful day.
A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn’t seen in forty-nine years.
A man arrives at a Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.
A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past.
These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface. It is in this moment that Bill Clegg reminds us how choices—to connect, to betray, to protect—become our legacy.
“Written in lyrical, beautiful prose that makes even waking up seem like a poetic event” (Good Morning America), this novel is a feat of storytelling, capturing sixty years within the framework of one fateful day.
Author
Bill Clegg
Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. The author of the novels Did You Ever Have a Family and The End of the Day, he has written for the New York Times, Lapham’s Quarterly, New York magazine, The Guardian, and Harper’s Bazaar.
Related to The End of the Day
Related audiobooks
Object Lessons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thunderstruck: & Other Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Where I Want to Be Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Did You Ever Have A Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lovers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Children's Crusade: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Possibilities: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Hazards: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nora Webster: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Should We Stay or Should We Go: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Foregone: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Could Be Saved: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Possible World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Laura & Emma Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boy in the Field: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Feast Your Eyes: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Child: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Family Pictures: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Children: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Name Is Leon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Distinguished Guest: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Here We Are Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Past: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Alternate Side: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miller's Valley: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A History of Loneliness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sunken Cathedral: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Friendship Fiction For You
In Five Years: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Librarianist: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Christmas Bookshop: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anxious People: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Year of Second Chances: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home: the most moving and heartfelt novel you'll read this year Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Counterfeit: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Reading List: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Other Birds: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Italian Summer: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Junket Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Started It: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Looking for Jane: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lilith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Last Night: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Queenie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Favor: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roommates Wanted Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Passage to India Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Are the Light: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thank You For Listening: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Smallest Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Girls Must Be Magic: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost and Found Bookshop: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5So This Is the End: A Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for The End of the Day
Rating: 4.333333333333333 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
9 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5There are many characters and moving pieces. A few times I was confused remembering a character but it worked itself out.
Terrible raspy voice reading the book.