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Splendid omens / Robley Wilson.

by Wilson, Robley.

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St. Martin's Press, c2004.

Middle-aged men -- Fiction.

Male friendship -- Fiction.

Birthfathers -- Fiction.

Young women -- Fiction.

Deception -- Fiction.

Widowers -- Fiction.

Santa Barbara (Calif.) -- Fiction.

274 p. ; 22 cm.

"Thomas Dunne Books."

"It's 1993 and Alec Thompson is traveling to Maine, to witness the marriage of his painter friend, Webb Hartley. When Alec arrives at the wedding scene, he is surprised that no one-including Pru Mackenzie, Webb's 30-year younger bride-to-be-is on hand to welcome him. He soon learns the reason his best friend has suffered a fatal heart attack, and the wedding is off. Webb's death sends Alec in search of Jenny Grant, Webb's first wife, to announce the news. The journey takes him from Webb's Maine farmhouse to a northern California horse ranch and leads him through both men's pasts, from college to the present. As he re-explores the events that had bound the three of them-both men had been rivals for Jenny's affection-Alec discovers, in the murky context of those days, that their lives were far more entangled than he had imagined. What Alec learns-and what Webb apparently wanted him to know-cuts to the very essence of the rest of Alec's life. Understanding what happened thirty years earlier is more important to him than ever. Along the way, Alec's quest introduces him to a precocious twelve-year-old, an ultra-sophisticated divorcee, a Native American psychic. All are part of Webb's legacy for Alec to comb his memory, and the memories of everyone still living, in order to realize the truth."--Inside jacket.

Psychological fiction.

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