Helpless by Barbara Gowdy

Helpless by Barbara Gowdy

* A suspenseful and haunting novel of abduction and obsessive love, comparable to Ian McEwan's A Child in Time and John Fowles's The Collector

From the accomplished Canadian novelist and short-story writer, an all-consuming tale of child abduction. . An assured, perceptive, deftly delivered story * KIRKUS starred review *
Gowdy cleverly makes us wait for the kidnapping we know is coming, forcing us to watch as Ron moves closer and closer, like a shark circling its prey . . . A page-turner that finds tension not in the obvious question (Will Rachel be rescued?), but in mo * NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS *
Immensely well-observed . . . the acute psychological line demanded by material of this sort gets trodden with an unobtrusive delicacy * INDEPENDENT *
A thoughtful and elegantly written novel * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *

Barbara Gowdy is a prize-winning Canadian author. THE ROMANTIC was selected for the Booker longlist, while THE WHITE BONE and MISTER SANDMAN have both been picked as TLS Books of the Year. Two of Barbara Gowdy's works of fiction have been made into films.

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ISBN 13	9780349120300
ISBN 10	0349120307
Title	Helpless
Author	Barbara Gowdy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2008-05-29
Number of pages	320
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