Letters for Emily Audiobook
Letters for Emily Audiobook
- Jeffrey DeMunn
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2002-01-01
- 4 h 30 min
Summary:
You are so young. You may wonder what a vintage man like me could teach? I wonder as well. I certainly don’t claim to know all the answers. I’m hardly figuring out the questions….Existence includes a strange method of repeating itself and I’d like my experience to assist you. I want to change lives. My hope is usually that you will consider my phrases please remember my heart.
Harry Whitney is normally dying. And along the way, he’s shedding his mind. Afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, he knows his ‘great’ time is definitely dwindling..LEARNING MUCH MORE about Characters for Emily Desperate to be remembered as a lot more than an ailing previous man, Harry realizes the best gift he may pass on is the wisdom of his years, the jumbled mixture of encounters and emotions that soon add up to a life. Therefore he compiles a publication of his poems for his favorite granddaughter, Emily, in the hope that his words might somehow heal the tenuous associations in a family group that is falling apart.
But Harry’s poems contain more than meets the attention….As Emily and her family discover, intricate messages are concealed in them, hints and riddles which result in a fantastic cache of letters, and even a promise of hidden silver. Are they the ramblings of a guy losing touch with reality? Or has Harry given them a gift more precious than any of them could possess guessed? As Harry’s secrets are uncovered one by one, his family learns about love, compassion, and wish — and collectively they set out to search for something priceless, a shining reward to treasure permanently. They could grow closer in nature or be torn aside by greed…but their lives will be undeniably altered by Harry’s phrases in his characters for Emily.