Night Cries
- ISBN-10
- 0887340776
- ISBN-13
- 9780887340772
- Series
- Night Cries
- Category
- Children
- Pages
- 30
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Author
- David Wright Crawford
Description
Gene Buchanan, a successful first novelist, sits out in the sweltering Galveston night, tormented by a sophomore-slump writer's block... and a deeper problem we cannot guess at. A haunting cry echoes thinly through the night, troubling him and driving his wife Eleanor to distraction in her upstairs bedroom. The arrival of the talkative but sensible housekeeper Mrs. O'Lunney exposes the deeper problem: the couple is unable to deal with the death of their infant son. Eleanor in particular is particularly unwilling to deal with it, and Gene is torn between his own grief and his frustration at being unable to console and help her move on. Her emotional paralysis is bringing both their lives to a screeching halt. Then the haunting cry in the night turns out to be the wail of an abandoned baby. At first Eleanor hysterically refuses to have anything to do with it, or even admit it into the house, in spite of all Gene's urging, but the staunch Mrs. O'Lunney will have none of that. The innocent child becomes the catalyst of their final confrontation, pitting Gene's love and grief against Eleanor's inability to acknowledge her own loss.
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