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OverviewPeter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, tries to drown himself in the Ohio River. Failing to manage even that, he decides to hitch a ride east, fleeing the state and escaping accusations of rape and murder. As he assumes and discards aliases along the way, he believes that he can begin again, a fresh start - but the past has a habit of catching up with all of us, no matter how fast we run... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Austin WrightPublisher: Atlantic Books Imprint: Atlantic Books Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.250kg ISBN: 9781786492111ISBN 10: 1786492113 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 06 July 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn intellectual wordsmith's whodunit. --Kirkus Reviews This literary and existential mystery-within-a-novel may remind readers of the fiction of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, and other authors who chart the modern American search for identity. . . . An intellectual wordsmith's whodunit. --Kirkus Reviews Wright's fifth novel, a dark, allegorical parable about the links between identity, the past and the need to write, reads like a cross between Paul Auster's The Music of Chance and an episode of the '50s TV series The Millionaire. . . . This novel--told mostly in the unusual second-person singular--is about writing as a way to reconcile our past with who and what we become; it's Wright's brief but stirring conclusion on this subject that makes the book so special. --Publishers Weekly -An intellectual wordsmith's whodunit.- --Kirkus Reviews Author InformationAustin M. Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist and academic. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |