Before I Forget

Name: Before I Forget
Brand: Vintage Publishing

Vintage Publishing

Before I ForgetAuthor(s): Andr Brink\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Vintage\nISBN-13: 9780099477525, 978-0099477525\nSynopsis\nChris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer, an old writer, but a writer who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. It is on New Year's Eve, courtesy of his stalled car, that he meets Rachel, a young sculptress who becomes the great love of his life, a love greater for being unfulfilled. \n\nHe finds himself captivated by Rachel and drawn into a close friendship with her husband. As their friendship develops, Chris must reconcile himself to an unaccustomed type of intimacy but one that inevitably threatens this precarious triangular relationship. \n\nWoven through this is the story of his life and of a lifetime's loving. For he has known many women. As it becomes clear that this book is the final writing act of Chris's creative life, so we understand that these recollections are an attempt to bring ord.