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Ballantine Books
September 2009
On Sale: August 25, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 0345476026
EAN: 9780345476029
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Fiction
The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen
ways--and with unexpected consequences--in acclaimed author
Dan Chaon’s gripping, brilliantly written new novel.
Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire
nevertheless can’t stop searching for his troubled twin
brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden
has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from
place to place, managing along the way to hold down various
jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But
some version of the truth is always concealed. A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy
Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio,
with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in
Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted
motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next
move on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to
feel quietly uneasy. My whole life is a lie, thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has
recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks
off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and
breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems
abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake
himself--through unconventional and precarious means. Await Your Reply is a literary masterwork with the momentum
of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are
invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively
uncharted and perilously unmoored.
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