A Lifetime of Desires
by Doug Dunnevant
Style: Literary Fiction
ISBN: 9798891322189
Print Size: 204 pages
Writer: Environment Press
Reviewed by Elizabeth Zender
Past bets and goals, the street to redemption awaits.
Percy Hope has an amazing present: he is aware of the end result of a raffle with uncanny certainty. He’s identified to stroll away from a on line casino having gained upwards of twenty thousand {dollars} in a single weekend. The Home can’t catch him as a result of he’s not dishonest; he simply is aware of.
With this potential, he catches the attention of his future ex-wife, Beth Harrison. Lovely, daring, and a bit of bad-tempered, she captivates Percy proper up till he decides to cease playing. Percy’s dad and mom don’t approve of playing, nor do they honestly approve of Beth, although they do their finest to accommodate the place they will.
Percy’s world comes crashing down when he catches her together with her boss, a person he despises, in his favourite room, in his favourite chair, in the home he constructed for Beth. After a divorce, a suicide try, and the dying of his dad and mom, Percy is alone in the home he grew up in, attempting to piece himself again along with the assistance of an lovely stray canine named Sam.
Round this time, Percy finds himself suffering from goals of Beth, goals of him having conversations together with her, goals that really feel unbelievably actual. And on the identical time, Beth is having related goals of Percy. Whereas Percy is plagued with loss, Beth is pressured to look her previous within the eye, even the components she has stored buried away for years. Each of them performed a job within the demise of their relationship, however the folks they’re decided to grow to be discover it troublesome to avoid one another.
Regardless of their tumultuous previous, Percy and Beth embark on a street journey to fulfill with Beth’s start father, a person she hasn’t spoken to in a long time, a person Percy didn’t even know was alive, although he’d been married to Beth for twelve years. The intimacy of the truck, the unstated truths, and the nice distance to journey set them up for a myriad of prospects.
A Lifetime of Desires is a e book about destiny and second probabilities, starring characters battling inside demons and doubts whereas looking for the best path to stroll.
These characters echo folks everyone knows. They battle with accepting themselves and with coming to phrases with what life has dealt them. They don’t know what it means to look inward for change. Dunnevant’s writing is immersive and is difficult to place down. The softhearted romance inside the seek for forgiveness is good in a means that feels real. Perhaps love doesn’t conquer all, however it is value preventing for.
This can be a compelling narrative in regards to the transformative nature of affection, loss, and forgiveness. Naturally given items can take us far, however with out the drive towards betterment, complacency digs our graves. Percy and Beth journey collectively in alternating views, exhibiting how low they’ve fallen and the way excessive they will rise.
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