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The End of the Day (2020)

de Bill Clegg

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"A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years. An older man who has traveled from Manhattan to meet his newborn granddaughter collapses in a hotel lobby in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past. Seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century old secrets begin to surface in Bill Clegg's second novel. At its heart, The End of the Day is about the phenomenon of female friendship, its force and its breaking points, as well its most shaping influences-family, class, age, and power"--… (més)
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This is a lot like the Joyce Carrol Oates book I read
We Were The Mulvaneys. This book- The End of the Day by Bill Clegg is 300 pages of sheer boredom, where what little happens in the book isn’t worth it.

This author and many others who’s entire life has been spent in Manhattan, Connecticut, and the Hamptons have no clue how most of the world behaves. The author of this book and the book Itself had multiple warnings signs! Long-listed for a Man Booker prize- shorthand for a crappy book loved by critics, and the author is a literary agent in NYC, if you ever wondered what a 300 page story in the New Yorker, would be like, well read this and you will know.
A book has to have to have at least one interesting character to be enjoyable. This book didn’t seem to have anything interesting.
Books about vacant, shallow, narcissistic people aren’t interesting, they can be funny, but this book isn’t funny either.
It is a book by a liberal New York elite for other New York Elites, there is nothing wrong with this- they are entitled to have something enjoyable to read at the beach too.
So why 3 stars?
Because the author definitely knows how to write! The story just didn’t work for me. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
I looked forward to reading this novel, having enjoyed his earlier Did You Ever Have a Family. As with that novel, Clegg introduces his characters slowly, letting the details accrue gradually, so that our understanding of them builds slowly. For quite some time, we may not understand what links Dana—whose memory seems to be slipping—with Jackie, best friend of her youth, Lupita—a taxi driver in Hawaii—and Hap, who sits by the hospital bed of his dying father. Hap has never met these three women, but the secrets that they each carry are hugely meaningful to his complicated life. As a boy, Hap adored his world-traveling father, but now he wonders who this man truly was. Bill Clegg has a deep insight into nuanced relationships, whether they are “a friend in name and habit more than someone who could be counted on…[who can] make sure nothing was forgotten, or lost” or a great-grandparent, seen with new eyes, and “why it makes her feel strangely relieved she does not know.” Through multiple points of view, we learn of their limitations and heavy regrets, sorrows and fresh understandings as they reappraise their pasts. Clegg surprised me with individual sentences, such as: “She would think back on this hour with him all the rest of her life and remember it as the happiest, most exquisitely perfect, and the most misleading” and with how he chose to end the novel, not with every bow tied neatly, but with some secrets kept intact and held close. [I received a free copy of this book from the publisher] ( )
  AnaraGuard | Jul 1, 2021 |
I am attracted to books set in Connecticut since I spent 40 years of my life there. Through his characters, Bill Clegg portrayed both the charm and beauty of northwestern Connecticut as well as the enormous chasms in socioeconomic status among its residents. Main characters Dana Goss and Jackie live near each other in one of the towns served by the real Housatonic Valley Regional High School, the first public regional high school in Connecticut; it serves the sparsely populated northwestern area of Connecticut. Clegg uses the economically diverse characters to inform readers about access to private schools in that area of Connecticut. Only a few of the privileged citizens attend public school along with the farmers and children of domestic workers.

In Wells, a fictional town, Dana’s family lives in an estate called Edgeweather, and Jackie’s family lives in a more modest house within walking distance. Despite warnings from her mother, Jackie is allured into a friendship that Dana engineers. To serve Dana’s wishes and interests, and for most intents and purposes, they become best friends and remain close for much of their childhoods. However, there was a horrible falling out between the two women when they were young adults and haven’t spoken to each other for more than forty years.

During high school, Jackie is in love with Floyd Howland, a farmer from the area, and she traps him into marrying her with an unplanned pregnancy. It is clear that Dana disapproved of Jackie’s marriage to Floyd. Clegg uses several characters’ viewpoints to develop a story replete with misinformation and a slew of contradictory stories related to what happened so many years ago to destroy the relationship that Dana and Jackie had as youngsters.

Another prominent character, Lupita Lopez, daughter of the hired help at the Edgeweather Estate, is about the same age as Jackie and Dana but indeed a member of a different social class. Lupita is abused by her father and tormented at school. The reader learns early in the story that she has moved to Hawaii and chauffeurs tourists around.

Clegg creates nuanced relationships, yet much of the story is dark. Each character has secrets and regrets. Dishonesty and manipulation prevail as the characters' stories unfold. He uses powerful New England symbolism such as the “Great Elm” tree and brick walls swarming with ivy to represent the steadfast lives of the wealthy people who own multiple homes, usually in Connecticut, New York, AND Florida, and employ foreigners as servants. Connecticut is often called the “Land of Steady Habits,” This book forces one to wonder how much has or has not changed among the real people living in old Yankee towns like the fictional Wells.

https://quipsandquotes.net/?p=485 ( )
  LindaLoretz | Mar 15, 2021 |
I was not happy with the ending. 3 people’s lives with dips into the past told over one day. The truth stayed hidden. ( )
  shazjhb | Jan 16, 2021 |
Three girls grow up living near each other in Wells, Connecticut. Dana. Jackie. Lupita. Each in a different social class. With or without wealth. With or without expectations. Privilege, no privilege. One betrayal touches their lives and has ramifications for the next generation. ‘The End of the Day’ by Bill Clegg is about the fragility of loyalty when teenage bonds are tested by love, jealousy, indiscretions, secrets and lies. ‘To end a friendship, it just takes someone willing to throw it away.’ Because when a decision is taken, more than one life is affected.
Clegg has written a genealogical story wrapped up in two timelines, the years not defined but basically the Sixties and the Noughties. An elderly woman, frail and confused, sets out from New York on an excursion. Another old woman wakes in her family home to a beautiful passage of memories. A taxi driver in Hawaii ignores the repeated messages left on her mobile phone. These three are connected by a youthful flirtation, a pregnancy, arrangements made and lies told, assumptions made. A fascinating story, characters so believable, but the details lacking in clarity – perhaps because so many lies have been told. In the Noughties are mother and son Alice and Hap. Hap’s life takes two momentous turns when his father is seriously ill in hospital, the same hospital where his wife has just given birth to their baby daughter. A little girl still, significantly, without a name.
The first half is a slow read with beautiful writing that at times edged towards the self-indulgent. The book, though not long, felt long. I wanted occasional clarity of story and shorter paragraphs. I was unclear about the different houses featured – the childhood homes of Jackie and Dana and the area in which they lived. Perhaps the author knows it so well he forgot to be clear for the reader. The story moves location and year without specification which can be disorientating.
In re-reading the notes I wrote after finishing the book, I found I had twice written ‘lacking clarity’. The story is a sad one, of connections made, lost, and unknown, but for me it could be more touching with a clearer narrative spine. That said, the story stayed with me days after I finished it – always a good sign. The parallels between the generations, the vulnerability of a baby dependent on adults for the truth of its origins, the duty to protect and the urge to run from an old life. An okay story wrapped up in exquisite writing.
Read more of my book reviews at http://www.sandradanby.com/book-reviews-a-z/ ( )
  Sandradan1 | Dec 29, 2020 |
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"A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years. An older man who has traveled from Manhattan to meet his newborn granddaughter collapses in a hotel lobby in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past. Seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century old secrets begin to surface in Bill Clegg's second novel. At its heart, The End of the Day is about the phenomenon of female friendship, its force and its breaking points, as well its most shaping influences-family, class, age, and power"--

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