Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz
At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family - Ethan and Grace, their children, Josh and Emma - stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner, lost in a ten-year-old's private world, is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. He is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away. From this moment forward, Reservation Road becomes a harrowing countdown to the confrontation between two very different men. The hit-and-run driver is a small-town lawyer named Dwight Arno, a man in desperate need of a second chance. Dwight is also the father of a ten-year-old boy, who was asleep in the car the night Josh Learner was killed. In a gripping narrative woven from the voices of Ethan, Dwight, and Grace, Reservation Road tells the story of two ordinary families facing an extraordinary crisis--a book that reads like a thriller but opens up a world rich with psychological nuance and emotional wisdom. Reservation Road explores the terrain of grief even as it astonishes with unexpected redemption: powerful and wrenching and impossible to put down.
A triumph..character-driven as it is, it reads like a thriller, swift and complete. * The New York Times Book Review *
A poignant thriller...the novel's resolution is quietly breathtaking. * Vanity Fair *
Haunting .... A powerful and affecting novel. * The New York Times *
A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller. * Los Angeles Times *
A deeply moving, darkly satisfying novel. * The Boston Globe *
So beautifully written and compelling that you can't will yourself to put it down. * The Denver Post *
Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity...This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read a inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious. * Entertainment Weekly *
This book possesses a conclusion of such power that it would be a literary crime to reveal it. * USA Today *
[Schwartz is] a fine writer....Reservation Road is a page-turner, but along the way there is much to linger over. * The Washington Post Book World *
The redemption in Reservation Road is unexpected, compassionate and powerful, making it moving in a way that few novels are. * San Antonio Express-News *
Reservation Road is a terrific novel, both a page-turner and a discerning portrayal of the psychic costs of self-delusion. * The Oregonian *
A poignant thriller...the novel's resolution is quietly breathtaking. * Vanity Fair *
Haunting .... A powerful and affecting novel. * The New York Times *
A dark and irresistible miracle: a heartbreaking thriller. * Los Angeles Times *
A deeply moving, darkly satisfying novel. * The Boston Globe *
So beautifully written and compelling that you can't will yourself to put it down. * The Denver Post *
Thrums with suspense and moral ambiguity...This is one of those rare-very rare-novels that you don't so much read a inhabit and that makes everyday life seem altogether mysterious. * Entertainment Weekly *
This book possesses a conclusion of such power that it would be a literary crime to reveal it. * USA Today *
[Schwartz is] a fine writer....Reservation Road is a page-turner, but along the way there is much to linger over. * The Washington Post Book World *
The redemption in Reservation Road is unexpected, compassionate and powerful, making it moving in a way that few novels are. * San Antonio Express-News *
Reservation Road is a terrific novel, both a page-turner and a discerning portrayal of the psychic costs of self-delusion. * The Oregonian *
John Burnham Schwartz is the author of the acclaimed novels The Commoner, Claire Marvel, Bicycle Days and Reservation Road, which was made into a film based on his screenplay.His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and son.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780334585 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780334583 |
| Title | Reservation Road |
| Author | John Burnham Schwartz |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2012-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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