International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

The Boston Globe calls Frederick Buechner "one of [America's] finest writers." USA Today says he's "one of [America's] most original storytellers." Now this acclaimed author gives us his most beguiling novel yet - a magical tale of love, betrayal, and redemption inspired by Shakepeare's The Tempest. On a wealthy Plantation Island in South Florida, an old man waits. Kenzie Maxwell is a writer, a raconteur, a rascal, an altruist, a mystic -a charismatic figure who enjoys life wth his rich third wife but muses daily on the sins of his past. Two decades ago, Kenzie had to leave New York because of a scandal. He'd been a volunteer at a runaway shelter, and he'd fallen deeply in love with a seventeen-year-old girl - a girl who died while giving birth to Kenzie's daughter. His older brother, Dalton, a lawyer and board member at the shelter, decided to quell rumours by releasing Kenzie's note of apology to the press. Kenzie's reputation - and the girl's - were destroyed. He has never forgiven his brother. Now it's the eve of Kenzie's seventieth birthday, and a storm is brewing. His beloved daughter, Bree - the child of the scandal - is coming down from New York for his birthday party. But his brother Dalton is coming down too, to do some legal work for the island's ill-tempered matriarch. Aided and abetted by Dalton's happy-go-lucky stepson, a loutish gardener, a New Age windsurfer, a bumbling bishop, and a bona fida tempest, Kenzie must somehow contrive to reconcile with his brother - and make peace with his past.
An ordained Presbyterian minister, Frederick Buechner is the author of thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, the novel On the Road with the Archangel which was nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His novel Godric was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and The Son of Laughter and Brendan were both winners of Christianity Today's Critics Choice Award. His non-fiction books include Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC; Telling the Truth: the Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale; and Listening to Your Life. Frederick Buechner lives in Vermont.

The Storm by Frederick Buechner Nominated by:

The Storm by
Frederick Buechner

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