Relief, a novel, tells the story of Eric and Abigail Kees, who fall in love in the months after the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Over the next decade Eric and Abigail marry, have a child, start a business, buy a second home and eventually discover that some of their earliest anxieties about their relationship are true.Meanwhile, Eric's brother, Boyd, comes in and out of their lives. The first time he enters their lives Eric and Abigail are living in New York. Boyd stays long enough to reveal some of the fissures in their relationship and then leaves a few weeks later, apparently taking with him a lottery ticket worth millions of dollars. Eric and Abigail not only feel like they have been robbed of their winnings but also like they were robbed of the ideal future they had begun to imagine for themselves.Years later Boyd reenters their lives. Now the setting is Relief, a small coastal town on the Florida panhandle. Relief is where Eric and Boyd were happiest as children, and it is where they have returned as adults, hoping to reclaim a measure of that early happiness. But neither of them manage to pull it off, and when Boyd flees this time, Eric and Abigail can no longer lie to themselves about the life they have built together—or the lives they might have built if they had never met. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine
Arts. / Spring Semester, 2011. / February 25, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references. / Mark Winegardner, Professor Directing Thesis; Julianna Baggott, Committee Member; David Kirby, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_254363 |
| Contributors | McCall, Joshua (authoraut), Winegardner, Mark (professor directing thesis), Baggott, Julianna (committee member), Kirby, David (committee member), Department of English (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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