Eleanor and Abel

by Annette Sanford (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $4.67

  When a storm tears a hole in Miss Eleanor Bannister's roof, the itinerant carpenter who volunteers to repair it is so capable and charming that he remodels Miss Eleanor's life. A retired schoolteacher in the town where she's always lived, Eleanor, at the age of sixty-nine, finds the sudden presence of Abel Brown in her life unnerving and unsettling - and after a time, irresistible. Abel shakes up her fixed ideas of who she is and starts her wanting something she never imagined for herself. Amid many complications, Eleanor and Abel proceed on the fractious course of their courtship, in a novel that is never less than captivating, engaging and utterly charming. Praise for Annette Sanford-'Sanford is very very good.' New York Times 'The stories all ride on dialogue, spare and rhythmical, like Elmore Leonard's beat behind Eudora Welty's lyrics.' The New York Times Book Review'Sanford has a poetic way with a sentence and she writes original, off-kilter dialogue; by turns witty and exceptionally wise, her characters are always impeccably imagined.' Publisher's Weekly

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.44

  When a storm tears a hole is Miss Eleanor Bannister's roof, the itinerant carpenter who volunteers to repair it is so capable and charming that he remodels Miss Eleanor's life. A retired school teacher in the town where she has always lived, Eleanor at the age of sixty-nine, finds the sudden presence of Abel Brown in her life unnerving and unsettling - and after a time irresistible. Abel shakes up her fixed ideas of who she is and starts her wanting something she never imagined for herself. Amid many complications, Eleanor and Abel proceed on the fractious course of their courtship, in a novel that is never less than captivating, engaging and utterly charming.