by Jack R. Pyle After Many a Summer is a tale of two older people. Cassie Jean’s checkerboard past only sharpens the realization that she has only two great loves: Bill is one of them, and the other is her art. Life is never a straight line. The simple act of living in a less-than-perfect world is enough to make our hoped-for-straight line turn serpentine. But we make it worse; we always take care to build our own stone or chiffon barriers along the way. We make our own real or imagined impediments. We color our own bogeymen black. There is something about Cassie Jean that is Everywoman and there is something about Everywoman that is Cassie Jean. <p>by Jack R. Pyle</p> <p>After Many a Summer is a tale of two older people. Cassie Jean’s checkerboard past only sharpens the realization that she has only two great loves: Bill is one of them, and the other is her art.<br />Life is never a straight line. The simple act of living in a less-than-perfect world is enough to make our hoped-for-straight line turn serpentine. But we make it worse; we always take care to build our own stone or chiffon barriers along the way. We make our own real or imagined impediments. We color our own bogeymen black.</p> <p>There is something about Cassie Jean that is Everywoman and there is something about Everywoman that is Cassie Jean.</p> 2007-07-13T17:03:56-04:00 after-many-a-summer 366121 Fiction 2008-11-08T21:35:52-05:00 2008-11-08T21:35:52-05:00 Pyle, Jack fiction 2007-07-13T17:03:56-04:00 manual 0 647121 deny 1 paperback 1 13.95 366121 09663666-1-1 2008-11-08T21:35:52-05:00 2007-07-13T17:03:56-04:00 584221 1 366121 2008-11-08T21:35:52-05:00 http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0003/7221/products/aftermanyasummer.jpg?1250382874 Title