01916cam a2200337 i 4500 369199661 TxAuBib 20190129120000.0 181210s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2018196010 9780062358202 HRD 26.99 0062358200 HRD 26.99 TxAuBib rda Conklin, Tara. The last romantics : a novel / Tara Conklin. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] 354 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that stretches before them, the Skinner siblings—fierce Renee, sensitive Caroline, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona—emerge from the Pause staunchly loyal and deeply connected. Two decades later, the siblings find themselves once again confronted with a family crisis that tests the strength of these bonds and forces them to question the life choices they’ve made and ask what, exactly, they will do for love. 20190131. km. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Loyalty Fiction. Family life Fiction. Conneticut Fiction. Domestic fiction.