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OverviewA riveting novel of feeling and suspense in which grief and punishment become tragically intertwined. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Burnham Schwartz , Stanley Tucci , Anne Twomey , John SheaPublisher: Random House Audio Assets Imprint: Random House Audio Assets Edition: abridged edition Dimensions: Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 15.10cm Weight: 0.122kg ISBN: 9780739358122ISBN 10: 073935812 Publication Date: 01 October 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a shattering book, imagined with startling emotional precision and generosity. And though it begins in catastrophe, Reservation Road turns out to be a kind of map of connectedness: Touch a child here and the whole world trembles out of orbit; everyone bleeds; finally, perhaps, after great pain, everyone heals. John Burnham Schwartz is awfully young to own this much wisdom, but there it is, on every page. <br>--Rosellen Brown <br> A powerful and affecting novel...haunting...highly suspenseful...compelling to read. <br>--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times <br> Spellbinding...a haunting tale <br>-- Booklist <br> A poignant thriller...quietly breathtaking...a suspenseful literary novel <br>--Betsey Osborne, Vanity Fair <br> A pleasure to read. Suspense is redefined here... <br>--Sandra Scofield, Newsday <br> A lovely book, full of life and feeling <br>--Peter Matthiessen <br> One of those rare--very rare--novels that you don't so much read as inhabit...But it's the novel's conclusion, as perfect as it is sudden, shocking and completely unexpected, that will stick in your memory. <br>--Tom Dehaven, Entertainment Weekly <br> A beautiful novel. An important novel <br>--David Bowman, New York Observer <br> Both a beautiful, wrenching story of redemption, and a novel of exquisite suspense <br>--Anne Lamott <br> A first-rate work of fiction disguised as a page-turning thriller <br>--David Halberstam <br> An unexpected pleasure...It will leave the reader entranced as well as moved. <br>--Erica Noonan, Boston Herald <br> A non-stop read...a wonderful writer <br>--Ward Just <br> A triumph of form, pacing and power...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thrille, swift andcomplete. <br>--Kit Reed, New York Times Book Review <br> It possesses a conclusion of such power that it would be a literary crime to reveal it. <br>--Deirdre Donahue, USA Today <p> From the Hardcover edition. Author InformationJohn Burnham Schwartz is the author of the novels Claire Marvel and Bicycle Days. His books have been translated into more than fifteen languages and his writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and Vogue. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn, New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |