Late and Soon

by Hughes, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780786715886
• ISBN10: 078671588X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-12
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

In "Late and Soon", a host of characters confront their confusions in love.laire, an art specialist at Sotheby's, lives in a world of glamour andchievement - but after attending an art opening, where she runs into theoung man her husband had left her for five years earlier, she realizes thater broken heart has never truly healed. Claire begins to question herself,er past and her future, as does the younger man, Toby. For it turns out thateter, her ex-husband, has left him, too. So begins a story spinning in thearified but fast-paced whirl of art auctions in New York City. "Late andoon" chronicles Claire's emotional course, as she puts together a sale ofaintings that could make her career. She is captivated by one painting inarticular that speaks to her, a James Tissot work titled "The Widow," and isaken under wing by the painting's owner, a well-to-do society matron of theld school, who loves the painting too, and who's parting with it for reasonshat Claire finds poignant - especially regarding her own. Meanwhile, theossibility of romance does indeed loom.;For as Claire puts together her