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North, May 2005
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A taut, dark, psychological page-turner from the best-selling author of Girls.
W. W. Norton
May 2005
302 pages
ISBN: 039305103X
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Combining the pace of a detective story with the bold prose
of a master storyteller, North is both an adventure and a
pilgrimage. Alone and haunted by memories of his dead wife
and child, Jack—who prowled the backwaters of Girls—returns
to upstate New York from the Carolina coast, where he has
been working as a security guard. A New York lawyer hires
him to find her missing nephew, last seen in the area of
Jack's northern hometown. His search gradually uncovers a
dark underside of rural life and a cast of dangerous
characters. Jack is besieged by memories as he uncovers a
brutal crime and finds himself in a turbulent relationship
with a treacherous woman. In trying to save another's life,
Jack must relive his own; memory, obsession, and reality
fuse; and Jack discovers the truth of Faulkner's
observation that "the past is not really past; it's not
even over."
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