Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos, Mary Gordon - 9781538722275

Oscar Hijuelos

Mr. Ives' ChristmasA Novel\nAuthor(s): Oscar Hijuelos, Mary Gordon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown & Company, United States\nImprint: Grand Central Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781538722275, 978-1538722275\nSynopsis\nIn 1960s New York, Edward Ives is a picture of the American dream. Adopted as a child by a widowed print shop manager, who helped him cultivate a love of drawing, he now has a successful career as an illustrator in advertising, a beautiful home with his wife and muse, Annie, and two loving children. But this idyllic life is brutally wrenched away when Ives's 17-year-old son, Robert-who has just decided to commit his life to the priesthood-is murdered by another teenage boy just before Christmas, a crime of opportunity that proves to be as random as it is senseless. Consumed by grief, Ives withdraws from the world. Grappling with a loss of faith-a force that has guided him steadfastly since childhood-he starts to question every aspect of human existence, contem.