If I Forget You: A Novel
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"Thomas Christopher Greene's If I Forget You is the most moving and beautifully-written love story I've read since Cold Mountain."—Howard Frank Mosher, author of God's Kingdom
Two former lovers reconnect in this beautiful and haunting tale of great lost love from the critically acclaimed author of The Headmaster's Wife
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife was a breakout book for Thomas Christopher Greene. Now, Greene returns with a beautifully written, emotional new novel perfect for his growing audience.
Twenty-one years after they were driven apart by circumstances beyond their control, two former lovers have a chance encounter on a Manhattan street. What follows is a tense, suspenseful exploration of the many facets of enduring love. Told from altering points of view through time, If I Forget You tells the story of Henry Gold, a poet whose rise from poverty embodies the American dream, and Margot Fuller, the daughter of a prominent, wealthy family, and their unlikely, star-crossed love affair, complete with the secrets they carry when they find each other for the second time.
Written in lyrical prose, If I Forget You is at once a great love story, a novel of marriage, manners, and family, a meditation on the nature of art, a moving elegy to what it means to love and to lose, and how the choices we make can change our lives forever.
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Thomas Christopher Greene. (2016). If I Forget You: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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- bioText: THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GREENE is the author of several novels, including Mirror Lake; I'll Never Be Long Gone; Envious Moon; The Headmaster's Wife; and If I Forget You. His fiction has been translated into 13 languages and has won many awards and honors. In 2008, Tom founded Vermont College of Fine Arts, a top graduate fine arts college, making him the youngest college president in the country at that time. He lives and works in Vermont.
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"Thomas Christopher Greene's If I Forget You is the most moving and beautifully-written love story I've read since Cold Mountain."—Howard Frank Mosher, author of God's Kingdom
Two former lovers reconnect in this beautiful and haunting tale of great lost love from the critically acclaimed author of The Headmaster's Wife
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife was a breakout book for Thomas Christopher Greene. Now, Greene returns with a beautifully written, emotional new novel perfect for his growing audience.
Twenty-one years after they were driven apart by circumstances beyond their control, two former lovers have a chance encounter on a Manhattan street. What follows is a tense, suspenseful exploration of the many facets of enduring love. Told from altering points of view through time, If I Forget You tells the story of Henry Gold, a poet whose rise from poverty embodies the American dream, and Margot Fuller, the daughter of a prominent, wealthy family, and their unlikely, star-crossed love affair, complete with the secrets they carry when they find each other for the second time.
Written in lyrical prose, If I Forget You is at once a great love story, a novel of marriage, manners, and family, a meditation on the nature of art, a moving elegy to what it means to love and to lose, and how the choices we make can change our lives forever.- reviews
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April 18, 2016
Greene (The Headmaster’s Wife) begins this dramatic novel in 2012 with two former lovers, prize-winning poet Henry Gold and Connecticut housewife Margot Baldwin, catching sight of each other on a Manhattan street. Both are instantly thrown back in time to the campus of Bannister College in 1991, where the two first met. Despite being from two different worlds—he was Jewish and poor, she was WASPy and wealthy—they fell in love. Then a tragic circumstance forced the two of them apart, and they haven’t seen or been in contact with one another since. When they finally reconnect, all those old emotions come rushing back. Will Henry, settled into his comfortable divorced-dad life in Manhattan, and Margot, trapped in a loveless marriage in which she has two children, rekindle the love they lost 21 years ago, or will old secrets and hurts stand in the way of their future happiness? Greene applies a rigorous intelligence to a familiar premise. Piled-on melodramatic elements (an overbearing father, an act of violence) and a pat ending threaten to undermine the care with which he has created two believable and empathetic characters. Nevertheless, readers will be rooting to see Henry and Margot together again despite the odds. Agent: Marly Rusoff, Marly Rusoff & Associates.
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Founder of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008, Greene broke out last year with The Headmaster's Wife, which sold 40,000 copies and received rapturous reviews. Here, Henry Gold, who climbed out of poverty to become a celebrated poet, and socially prominent Margot Fuller meet on a Manhattan street 20 years after their deep love affair crashed.
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Readers will welcome this new novel from the author of the much-admired The Headmaster's Wife (2014). Swaying softly between the heady days of their college romance in 1991 and the ho-hum existence of their middle-aged lives, Henry's and Margot's worlds figuratively collide on a crowded Manhattan street one afternoon, and suddenly all the heartbreak, betrayal, and yearning of the past 21 years comes rushing back. While students at elite Bannister College in upstate New York, rebellious artist Margot was in her natural environment of wealth and privilege, while Henry, a scholarship student from working-class Providence, was the odd man out. Yet his innate talent for poetry and romance spoke to Margot in a way no one else could, and their love affair seemed destined to defy the odds. Unfortunately, her father had other ideas, and the lovers were brutally forced apart in an episode torn straight from Shakespeare. Greene's candid tale of true love besieged by insurmountable hardship, only to be rekindled later in life, is delicate and tender, providing readers with a gentle escape and soulful interlude.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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In his powerful, emotionally moving love story, Greene (The Headmaster's Wife) candidly acknowledges life's complexities--and the many challenges that couples face as they negotiate romantic relationships and family expectations. Henry Gold falls deeply in love as a young college student in upstate New York, but the love of his life, Margot, is torn away from him by her wealthy, arrogant father. Henry moves on to marriage with another woman, fatherhood, divorce, and a restless and unhappy middle age. A large part of the novel is devoted to examining Henry's and Margot's long journeys to adult maturity. They have important things to learn about themselves and the world before they can find each other again. Their love survives the passage of decades, and a chance encounter in New York some 20 years later reignites the relationship. Greene handles this all with great sympathy and intelligence. VERDICT An inspiring novel about surviving the mistakes of our youth; recommended for romantics and realists alike. [See Prepub Alert, 11/30/15.]--Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community Coll., CT
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife was a breakout book for Thomas Christopher Greene. Now, Greene returns with a beautifully written, emotional new novel perfect for his growing audience.
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