| The Philadelphia Inquirer said of SusanKenney s novel In Another Country that it"may signal the most breathtaking literaryachievement of the year," and Anne Tylerwrote that Kenney "has created a dis-tinguished novel." Sailing. a sequel tothat book, is an even more moving portrayalof enduring love and courage in the face ofmortality. In its pages Sara and Phil Boyd,the married couple of her earlier novel,together and individually struggle overthe course of several years to survive thephysical and mental upheaval of Phil s life-threatening illness. It is a novel of greatemotional power, poignant beauty-glorious prose on sailing itself graces thebook- and astonishing intimacy. By the endof Sailing one knows the absolute best andworst about Phil and Sara, and understandshow desperate circumstances can elicit thefrantic, terrified worst and the stoical, heroicbest from two ordinary people. Here is aportrait of a marriage whose inspirationrings utterly true, for what husband and wifewill not see themselves, again and again, inPhil and Sara? For Sara, sailing was first a gift to Phil,an earnest symbol of her belief that hewould survive the crisis of his mortal ill-ness another summer; later it becomesa sign of their increasing distance. For Phil,sailing is both self-discovery and escape -from his fears, his sense of being a one-manmedical research project, and from Sara sconstant vigilance; ultimately his lonelypersonal voyage will become a literal one.For readers, Sailing will be an experiencenever to be forgotten, an indelible work ofliterary art and emotional wisdom andunderstanding. It confirms Susan Kenney sstature as a novelist.of uncommon accom-plishment and brilliant human insight. |
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