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September 2010
On Sale: September 14, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0061466557
EAN: 9780061466557
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One of the most acclaimed modern American novelists, Scott
Spencer captures the intensity of human passion—and its
capacity to both destroy and redeem—with unparalleled
precision and insight. Now, in his most stunning novel yet,
this wry, witty, and deeply sensitive writer returns to the
territory of his New York Times bestseller A Ship Made of
Paper, in a gripping and provocative psychological thriller
of morality and manhood, choice and fate. Paul has been on his own since he was a teenager, leading a
life of freedom and independence, beholden to no one and
nothing. Fearless, resolute, and guided by his own private
moral code, he has hunted for food in Alaska, fought forest
fires, and been deputized in a manhunt for a kidnapper in
South Dakota. Once he thought his life would have no
particular rhyme or reason, touched only by transient
strangers. Then he meets the beautiful, intelligent, loving
Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, who offer order and
constancy. But Paul is a man of deep convictions, and the
compromises we all make to get along in the world elude him. On his way home after rejecting a job remodeling a luxurious
Manhattan apartment, Paul stops to gather his thoughts at a
state park just off the highway. Instead of peace, he finds
a man savagely beating a dog, and in a few fateful moments
Paul is plunged into a world of violence and onto a
tumultuous journey of self-knowledge, guilt, and redemption. With the psychological acuity and razor-sharp prose for
which he has been celebrated, award-winning, bestselling
novelist Scott Spencer once again takes us on an
unforgettable journey of manhood lost and found.
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