The Slow Moon by Elizabeth Cox
On an early spring night in 1991, Sophie and Crow, flushed with anticipation, slip away from a rowdy high school party and sneak off into the woods. Tonight, for the first time, they will make love. An hour later, Sophie lies unconscious, covered with blood, and Crow is crashing through the underbrush, hurling himself into the river to escape the police. . . . What was meant to be an idyllic, intimate evening has turned into a nightmare. Despite Crow's frantic claims of innocence, evidence at the scene suggests his guilt. And Sophie, by now awake in the hospital, refuses to speak, leaving the residents of the couple's seemingly placid Tennessee town to draw their own wildly varying conclusions.If Crow isn't to blame, then who assaulted Sophie, and what compelled Crow to flee? With each answer comes a new set of questions. Elizabeth Cox's vibrant and lyrical narrative revisits the events leading up to the fateful night, then shows how the tragedy reverberates throughout the community, among parents, friends, teachers, and neighbors-all connected to the young lovers, all with a stake in what happens next. As growing suspicions divide the town, a closer look reveals that everyone has something to hide. A compelling and passionate page-turner, The Slow Moon waxes full with suspense, a haunting story of innocence lost, lives betrayed, and the courage required to face the truth. From the Hardcover edition.
Elizabeth Cox is the author of four novels: The Ragged Way Humans Fall Out of Love, Night Talk (winner of the Lillian Smith Award and a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Familiar Ground, and The Slow Moon, as well as poetry and short story collections. She's received the Robert Penn Warren Award and the North Carolina Fiction Award, as well as membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Cox has taught creative writing at Duke University, the University of Michigan, the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Tufts University, Boston University, MIT, Bennington College, and, most recently, Wofford College, where she and her husband, C. Cox, shared the John Cobb Chair. Michael Curtis is the Atlantic's fiction editor.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679463283 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679463283 |
| Title | The Slow Moon |
| Author | Elizabeth Cox |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House (NY) |
| Year published | 2006-08-24 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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