Evacuation Plan: A novel from the hospice

By Joe M. O'Connell
Published by Natalie Collins
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Published: Sep. 23, 2012
Words: 61,307 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301859030

Short description

Matt, a fledgling screenwriter, volunteers to work with the terminally ill in exchange for a good plot for his next script. He meets the people who work, die, and mourn in this world of last moments. In the novel-in-stories style of Tim O’Brien’s July July and Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love, O’Connell’s characters in Evacuation Plan reveal themselves in poignantly unfolding stories.

Extended description

Matt, a fledgling screenwriter, volunteers to work with the terminally ill in exchange
for a good plot for his next script. He meets the people who work, die, and mourn in
this world of last moments. In the novel-in-stories style of Tim O’Brien’s July July and
Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love, O’Connell’s characters in Evacuation Plan reveal
themselves in poignantly unfolding stories: the gambler who played a risky game (Read more) Matt, a fledgling screenwriter, volunteers to work with the terminally ill in exchange
for a good plot for his next script. He meets the people who work, die, and mourn in
this world of last moments. In the novel-in-stories style of Tim O’Brien’s July July and
Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love, O’Connell’s characters in Evacuation Plan reveal
themselves in poignantly unfolding stories: the gambler who played a risky game
involving his wife and his ex-con father; the mortician who was an unwed father-tobe;
the daughter whose dying father had no clue about the night her world spun out
of control; the nurse who lived among aging neighbors and struggled to hold her own
family in place; the drunk who magically encountered himself as a boy. Forgiveness,
joy, making the final leap: Evacuation Plan is the story of a world in which the clock
ticks off the final moments for all of us and makes of those moments a lifetime.
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