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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Graywolf Pr
Publication date
March 31, 2009
Pages
229
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781555975227
ISBN-10
1555975224
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.05 lbs.
Original list price
$22.00
Summaries and Reviews
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In the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.â So begins, innocuously enough, J. Robert Lennonâs gripping, spooky, and brilliant new novel. Unforthcoming, formal, and more than a little defensive in his encounters with curious locals, Eric Loesch starts renovating a run-down house in the small, upstate New York town of his childhood. When he inspects the title to the property, however, he discovers a chunk of land in the middle of his woods that he does not own. Whatâs more, the name of the owner is blacked out.
Loesch sets out to explore the forbidding and almost impenetrable forestâlifeless, it seems, but for a bewitching white deerâthat is the site of an eighteenth-century Indian massacre. But this peculiar adventure story has much to do with Americaâs current military misadventuresâand Loeschâs secrets come to mirror the American psyche in a paranoid age. The answer to whatâand whoâmight lie at the heart of Loeschâs property stands at the center of this daring and riveting novel from the author whose writing, according to Ann Patchett, âcontains enough electricity to light up the country.ââ
A mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence
In the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.â So begins, innocuously enough, J. Robert Lennonâs gripping, spooky, and brilliant new novel. Unforthcoming, formal, and more than a little defensive in his encounters with curious locals, Eric Loesch starts renovating a run-down house in the small, upstate New York town of his childhood. When he inspects the title to the property, however, he discovers a chunk of land in the middle of his woods that he does not own. Whatâs more, the name of the owner is blacked out.
Loesch sets out to explore the forbidding and almost impenetrable forestâlifeless, it seems, but for a bewitching white deerâthat is the site of an eighteenth-century Indian massacre. But this peculiar adventure story has much to do with Americaâs current military misadventuresâand Loeschâs secrets come to mirror the American psyche in a paranoid age. The answer to whatâand whoâmight lie at the heart of Loeschâs property stands at the center of this daring and riveting novel from the author whose writing, according to Ann Patchett, âcontains enough electricity to light up the country.ââ
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from Graywolf Pr (March 31, 2009)
9781555975227 | details & prices | 229 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $22.00
About: A mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violenceIn the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.
About: A mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violenceIn the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.
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from Graywolf Pr (August 31, 2010)
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