The Train Now Departing
  • Published:
    May-2000 (Hardcover)
    Jun-2001 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Suspense
  • Pages:
    208
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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A pair of thematically connected novellas-about loneliness-by the author of the Richard Jury mysteries (The Stargazey, 1998, etc.) and, most recently, Biting the Moon (1999).

At the center of each is a woman leading a life in gunmental gray. Dissimilar in detail-one protagonist is English, the other American; one has a friend or two, the other seems not to have any-the women are alike in their resignation, in the degree to which their expectations have shrunk. And in their terrible vulnerability, which in both cases is exploited by a powerful man.

Clear-eyed, nuanced probings into the cruelty of isolation, and though persuasively sad, neither novella is at all sentimental. But readers who come to Grimes for a Richard Jury-like experience should be warned: these are lives of very quiet desperation.
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    •  
    • Jun-2001
    • NAL
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451203755
    • ISBN13: 9780451203755
    • First Edition
    • May-2000
    • Viking
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0670891541
    • ISBN13: 9780670891542
    •  
    • Sep-2000
    • Books on Tape
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0736656871
    • ISBN13: 9780736656870
    •  
    • Aug-2000
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0783890710
    • ISBN13: 9780783890715
    • Large Print



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