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Hardcover
The author of The Untouchable (“contemporary fiction gets no
better than this”—Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book
Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and
the unpredictable power of memory.
The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon
after his wife’s death, has gone back to the seaside town
where he spent his summer holidays as a child—a retreat from
the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But
it is also a return to the place where he met the Graces,
the well-heeled vacationing family with whom he experienced
the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first
time. The seductive mother; the imperious father; the
twins—Chloe, fiery and forthright, and Myles, silent and
expressionless—in whose mysterious connection Max became
profoundly entangled, each of them a part of the “barely
bearable raw immediacy” of his childhood memories.
Interwoven with this story are Morden’s memories of his
wife, Anna—of their life together, of her death—and the
moments, both significant and mundane, that make up his life
now: his relationship with his grown daughter, Claire,
desperate to pull him from his grief; and with the other
boarders at the house where he is staying, where the past
beats inside him “like a second heart.”
What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its
indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac,
vividly dramatic, beautifully written novel—among the finest
we have had from this extraordinary writer.
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