{"product_id":"people-youve-been-before-paperback","title":"People You've Been Before - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Jollymore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The big deal in this small town is the high school's 100th-anniversary\u003c\/p\u003ecelebration, attracting politicos, town-boosters, the hoi polloi, thewayward, and the sinister, too. Some come out of curiosity. Some forlove. Others to stir trouble. And one to settle old scores.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll teem about the local baseball hero, state champion, and one-time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eteacher\/coach, Finn Pyykonen, in his effort to right the grievous wrong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evisited on a junior baseball catcher, unjustly imprisoned for a heinous crime a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equarter-century before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvent of Elizabeth tells the story of righteousness, of love's longing, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof mischief--the malicious kind--and of the many winding ways in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehuman heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatire, angst, ego, and surprise draw the reader through the three-day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereunion-fete and lives touched by secret. In this burg, it turns out, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeveryone has something to confess.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story full of insight into the social feelings, antisocial behaviors, and internal torments of the alcoholic life. Told with humor, irony, and depth of feeling.\" Not to be overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople You've Been Before\u003c\/em\u003e is a fierce and shattering portrait of a couple's 40-year relationship from marriage through divorce and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Jollymore's ambitious book is a day in a life-or better a life in one day-of novelist Els Mattila who has just completed a new work of fiction. Yet his visiting ex-wife charges that he's simply written a memoir that painfully exposes the addiction, abuse, and betrayals of their relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir galvanizing encounter starts in Els' Manhattan apartment as the couple grapples with their complex and tragic history: a journey from Minnesota to Oakland and Hollywood, California, into a recovery program, and on to New York City. Yet at every turn, the reader must decide who is telling the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWonderfully written and full of profound observations about life, the purpose of fiction, and the power of redemption, \u003cem\u003ePeople You've Been Before\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful and haunting novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen a novelist tells the story of an author writing another man's tale, whose story is it?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Els Mattila, an aging novelist who just spent three hundred days staring out the back window of his Manhattan, West Village apartment-writing. What came of those days?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Els his finished manuscript is a work of fiction, but his visiting ex-wife calls it a memoir. Even Els admits-but only to the reader-that he wrote it \"from memory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople You've Been Before\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the story of a couple's day-long encounter colored by forty years of marriage, divorce, and tragedy-exploring questions of who we are today and who we were all the days before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe visit begins a morning in New York City and takes the couple, by late afternoon, through Minnesota, Northern California, and on to Hollywood as Els recounts his hell-and-back journey into-and out of-a recovery program that saved one of two lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat in addiction-recovery circles is named \u003cem\u003edenial\u003c\/em\u003e is called \u003cem\u003epolitic\u003c\/em\u003e in public office, and either \u003cem\u003esaving face \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003ebetrayal\u003c\/em\u003e in marriage, depending on who's talking. In the world of the writer, \u003cem\u003elies\u003c\/em\u003e make \u003cem\u003efiction\u003c\/em\u003e, but if the writer doesn't know the truth, fiction becomes a lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho has the real story?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52553650143525,"sku":"9780998528847","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/lqbXdEYrNX9780998528847.webp?v=1781349803","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/people-youve-been-before-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}