And that, suddenly, is all the world has to offer." This is the voice of Ethan Learner, a college professor who has just watched his 10-year-old son, Josh, die in a hit-and-run accident on a silent Connecticut road. "Explain this to me: One minute there is a boy, a life thrumming with possibilities, and the next there are marked cars and strangers in uniform and the fractured whirling lights. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete."- The New York Times Book Review This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read as inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious." - Entertainment Weekly "Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity. This is an astonishing tale of love and loss, rage and redemption, that is as suspenseful as it is emotionally compelling. As these two men's lives unravel, Reservation Road moves to its startling conclusion. Dwight, a man at once fleeing his crime and hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. A powerful and affecting novel."- The New York TimesĪ tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz's riveting novel Reservation Road.
"A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller."- Los Angeles Times A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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