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Title: In the Deep Midwinter

Author: Robert Clark

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1949, Americans were poised on the edge of a golden age of seeming prosperity and peace. Everyone had a job, the middle class was expanding, television brought wonders into living rooms, and every night at five o'clock, cocktails tinkled in their glasses. But Robert Clark uncovers the reality behind the illusion, as the MacEwan family, in the depth of winter, realizes how fragile that prosperity and the ties that hold family together are, acknowledging the moral ambiguities of American culture. First-time novelist Robert Clark has a Cheever-esque penchant for dialogue and detail, rendering this family's dissolution with care.

(P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

Members Reviews:

Timeless Issues in a Period Piece

In the Deep Midwinter certainly evokes the 50s -- the drinks before dinner, the roast beef and creamed corn, the wife waiting at home for the husband, the moral and legal prohibitions. But the issues it addresses are timeless: is silence the better part of love? is it wisdom or hypocrisy to look the other way? The prose is stunning and poetic. The characters are well-drawn. Charles' pointless evening snowed in at home and afraid of his own shadow while Anna is across town growing sicker could not have been more disturbing and revealing. I immediately picked up Mr. White's Confession by the same author and found it an entirely different book but equally as moving. Highly recommend them both.

Excellent! Clark deserves wider recognition

I ordered IN THE DEEP MIDWINTER shortly after reading and being deeply impressed with another Robert Clark novel, LOVE AMONG THE RUINS, which was a tale of teenage love in northern Minnesota in 1968, during the Vietnam war and the summer of the Chicago democratic convention disorders. This novel deals not with teenage love in the sixties, but with love (and all its repercussions) in the winter of 1949-1950 as it affected a 50-ish long-married couple and their 30-ish divorced daughter, who has an affair with a married man. The mores and moral beliefs of 1950 were quite different from those of the late 60s, which becomes quickly evident here. The principal character, Richard MacEwan - a lawyer who seems very buttoned-down, conservative and staid in his ways - is soon revealed as a man whose emotions run deep, and the death of his more profligate younger brother causes Richard's feelings to rise to the surface and even to endanger his marriage. Family secrets also rise to the surface, endangering the MacEwans marriage. There is so much here to engage your mind and emotions - love, death, infidelity, abortion, medical and legal ethics. But there is also demonstrated a firm belief in what is simply right and just. There's something very uplifting about this tale in the end, something very hard to describe. But, as was the case with Love Among the Ruins, this book is marked by some of the finest writing that fiction has to offer. I don't understand why Clark isn't famous, because he writes as well as first-tier writers like Updike, Malamud and Roth. Although the story takes place in a later time, Clark's book brings to mind Evan S. Connell's MR BRIDGE and MRS BRIDGE, or James Agee's A DEATH IN THE FAMILY. I believe Clark has another novel or two out there. I'll go looking for them. I recommend this novel highly. - Tim Bazzett, author of PINHEAD: A LOVE STORY

Beautiful

This is a beautiful book.