Description
This sublime novella from the former New Yorker fiction editor explores the mysterious gravity of the past through the story of two lonely teenagers whose friendship comes to a dramatic end in 1920s rural Illinois, and the journey towards atonement one of them embarks on five decades later.
Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists.
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret.
Book Details
Format: |
Paperback |
Number of Pages: |
176 |
ISBN: |
9780099560937 |
Published: |
5 Jul 2012 |
Weight: |
138g |
Dimensions: |
195 x 129 x 11 (mm) |
Language: |
English |
