A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point. Once a privileged and loving couple, widely envied and respected, it takes just one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together.
A Thousand Pardons is that rare thing: a genuine literary thrillerEerily suspenseful and packed with dramatic event, it also offers a trenchant, hilarious portrait of our collective longing for authenticity in these over-mediated times. -- Jennifer Egan
...guilt, redemption and the American dream of starting afresh are Pulitzer-Prize nominee Jonathan Dee's themes in this thoroughly enjoyable comic tale. * Daily Mail *
...shrewdly observed and compulsively readable. * Literary Review *
Part relationship drama, part thriller, this is one of our favourite books of the year so far. * Bella *
With his sixth novel, Pulitzer finalist Dee has written a page turner without sacrificing a smidgen of psychological insight. What a triumph. * Kirkus (Starred Review) *
Dee is adept at meshing the complexities of marriage and family life with the paradoxes of the zeitgeist. In his sixth meticulously lathed and magnetizing novel, he riffs on the practice of crisis management.... [and] nets the absurdities of a society geared to communicate in a thousand electronic modes while those closest to each other can barely make eye connect. * Booklist *
A punch in the face of the American Dream, this is a timely meditation on public apology and absolution that suggests you don’t have to forget in order to forgive – or, indeed, forgive in order to forget. * The Observer *
...guilt, redemption and the American dream of starting afresh are Pulitzer-Prize nominee Jonathan Dee's themes in this thoroughly enjoyable comic tale. * Daily Mail *
...shrewdly observed and compulsively readable. * Literary Review *
Part relationship drama, part thriller, this is one of our favourite books of the year so far. * Bella *
With his sixth novel, Pulitzer finalist Dee has written a page turner without sacrificing a smidgen of psychological insight. What a triumph. * Kirkus (Starred Review) *
Dee is adept at meshing the complexities of marriage and family life with the paradoxes of the zeitgeist. In his sixth meticulously lathed and magnetizing novel, he riffs on the practice of crisis management.... [and] nets the absurdities of a society geared to communicate in a thousand electronic modes while those closest to each other can barely make eye connect. * Booklist *
A punch in the face of the American Dream, this is a timely meditation on public apology and absolution that suggests you don’t have to forget in order to forgive – or, indeed, forgive in order to forget. * The Observer *
Jonathan Dee is the author of five previous novels, most recently The Privileges which was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2011 Prix Fitzgerald. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781849017374 |
| ISBN 10 | 1849017379 |
| Title | A Thousand Pardons |
| Author | Jonathan Dee |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2013-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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