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Spiegel & Grau
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
304 pages
ISBN: 0812993446
EAN: 9780812993448
Kindle: B00GL3PYP6
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Women's Fiction
In CIA parlance, those who knew were “witting.” Everyone else was
among the “unwitting.” On a bright November day in 1963, President Kennedy is shot. That same
day, Nell Benjamin receives a phone call with news about her husband, the
influential young editor of a literary magazine. As the nation mourns its
public loss, Nell has her private grief to reckon with, as well as a
revelation about Charlie that turns her understanding of her marriage on
its head, along with the world she thought she knew. With the Cold War looming ominously over the lives of American citizens
in a battle of the Free World against the Communist powers, the blurry
lines between what is true, what is good, and what is right tangle with
issues of loyalty and love. As the truths Nell discovers about her
beloved husband upend the narrative of her life, she must question her
own allegiance: to her career as a journalist, to her country, but most
of all to the people she loves. Set in the literary Manhattan of the 1950s, at a journal much like the
Paris Review, The Unwitting evokes a bygone era of burgeoning
sexual awareness and intrigue and an exuberance of ideas that had the
power to change the world. Resonant, illuminating, and utterly absorbing,
The Unwitting is about the lies we tell, the secrets we keep, and
the power of love in the face of both.
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