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    Shine On, Bright & Dangerous Object: A Novel

    By Laurie Colwin

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    The vibrant and tender story of a young woman coming to terms with tragedy and finding the courage to love again 

    From the moment they meet, Elizabeth “Olly” Marcus and Sam Bax are coconspirators. They dump Olly’s boyfriend in the library, speed off on the back of Sam’s motorcycle, and seal their reckless bargain with a kiss in an apple orchard. A year later, they are married. Five years after that, Olly is a widow, her last glimpse of Sam a bright white dot on the horizon as he sailed into a storm off the coast of Maine.

    At the age of twenty-seven, Olly must begin again. She has lost an accomplice, but Sam’s parents have lost a son, and his brother, Patrick, has lost his best friend and the one person who truly understood him. The bonds of family are both a comfort and a burden to Olly as she tries to find a way to live with her grief and accept her role in her daredevil husband’s fate. Eventually she rediscovers her own sense of adventure, and with a newfound strength, she pursues a deep and abiding love that is the greatest surprise of her life.

    Told with compassion, honesty, and humor, Shine On, Bright & Dangerous Object is an unforgettable story of love and loss.

    This ebook features an illustrated biography of Laurie Colwin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateNov 18, 2014
    ISBN9781497673748
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    Shine On, Bright & Dangerous Object: A Novel
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    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye Without Leaving; Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object; and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. She died in 1992.

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    • 5/5
      I loved this slim novel that surprised me time and again. The first half is an extended meditation on the character of Sam, as seen by his recently widowed young wife, and on their marriage, and especially, on grief. The second half delves more deeply into Ollie's character as she slowly awakens from that fugue state of mourning, opening again to the world and to love, which at first feels like a betrayal of Sam. She must learn to accept her new realizations of his weaknesses, and to know that she will lose him anew as memory fades. The month that she spends at a music retreat is not as strong as the rest of the book, but overall, I was astonished and impressed by Colwin's deft handling of interiority, and her fresh ways of describing characters. I will definitely seek out her other writings.
    • 4/5
      How do you love an individual who constantly flirts with the potential for death? How do you behave in a relationship or a partnership with someone who has a history of self destructive behavior such as this: breaking his collarbone after being thrown by a horse, snapping his leg after skiing, or gouging his shoulder after rock climbing (more like rock falling)? How does a marriage survive such reckless disregard for staying together? The answer is it really doesn't. But Elizabeth Bax is attracted to James Dean. She likes the bad boys.She knew she had every right to worry when Sam, her daredevil husband of five years, went for "one last" sail before an autumn squall picked up. Sam's brother Patrick was already calling the coast guard knowing full well something bad was about to happen or more likely, already had. It is not a spoiler to tell you Sam died. What follows is an in depth examination of the human heart and how it tries to put itself together after being shattered. Shine On is a short book that asks the question is grief coupled with love a betrayal?
    • 3/5
      Laurie Colwin's Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, is a slight book [181 pages] with a split personality. Elizabeth (Olly) Bax is a twenty-seven-year-old widow. Her husband, Sam, was a charming daredevil who one day paid his dues - permanently. Olly grieves, coping with the warmth and awkwardness of family ties and tries to re-establish her own life. Olly comes to realize that her own risks are just as daring as Sam's - he risked his life and she is willing to risk her heart -and she again finds herself and love - but in a surprising place. This is a flawed book. It falls into two uneven parts that I had a great deal of difficulty with. On the other hand, it was refreshingly different and the characters were interesting. But either I was having a 'slow' day or some of the sentences were a bit difficult to understand. I found myself re-reading some passages wondering what the author meant.