A forty year kiss : a novel / Nickolas Butler.

By:

Butler, Nickolas [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781464221248
1464221243

Other title:

40 year kiss

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Forty year kissDDC classification:

813/.6 23/eng/20240429

LOC classification:

PS3602.U876 F67 2025

Summary: "Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing-he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets."--Dust jacket flap.

List(s) this item appears in: New Adult Fiction

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC BUTLER	Available		36748002628925

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"A story that captures the hope, grace, and joy of new love--but also the mistakes, scar tissue, and regret of past love. It's a wonder to behold, a novel capable of such breadth. This is the kind of book that makes me a better human." --Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and Wellness

From the critically acclaimed author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes an exquisitely written, small-town story about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, forty years after their divorce.

Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing--he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets.

A brave and triumphant exploration of redemption and sunset triumph, A Forty Year Kiss is a once-in-a-lifetime love story, written with dazzling lyricism and remarkable clarity of spirit, from a celebrated author at the top of his game. It's a literary valentine that promises to be a love story for the ages.

Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author (pages 323-330).

"Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing-he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets."--Dust jacket flap.

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Booklist Review

Forty years after their brief but intense marriage in the early 1980s, Charlie still can't get Vivian out of his head. They had married too young and too quickly, and Charlie was the opposite of husband material in his wilder years, but maybe the intervening decades have taught him a thing or two. After reconnecting in small-town Wisconsin, Charlie and Vivian are pleasantly surprised to find they still enjoy each other's company--maybe even more than when they were married. Butler (Godspeed, 2021) wrestles with the weight of what's left unsaid when a marriage dissolves, offering the pair's opposing perspectives on their shared history and newly appealing future. Readers who enjoyed Kent Haruf's Our Souls at Night, Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety, and Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons will appreciate Butler's focus on introspection, growth, and self-discovery, all influenced by decades-old patterns. This charming and empathetic portrayal of the Midwest and its denizens explores late-in-life romance, the pangs of regret, and the possibility of renewal no matter how much time has passed.