![]() ![]() ![]() A faithful staff of nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and are drawn into their orbit, as they are forced to reckon with their own life stories. Set on the water in one of New England's most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to live out their golden years-or final days-in understated luxury and surrounded by congenial literary company. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of writer's block that distresses him much more than his precarious health. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but never forgotten greats. ![]() A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them.Īlfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess-lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. ![]()
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