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Long Drive Home Contributor(s): Allison, Will (Author) ISBN: 1416543031 EAN: 9781416543039 Publisher: Free Press US SRP: $ 22.00 US Binding: Hardcover: 224 pages Pub Date: May 17, 2011
Annotation: Allison follows What You Have Left with a tight drama, part psychological thriller, part tragedy.
Glen is an accountant living in New Jersey with his successful wife, Liz, and their six-year-old daughter, Sara.
On an ordinary drive home from school, a series of mundane decisions grow increasingly dire and culminate in a car accident that sets road raging Glen onto a path of deception and self-destruction.
The novel is told from Glen's perspective, in part through a confessional letter written to Sara, an obvious but nonetheless effective tension builder.
It's a slow burn as guilt chips away at Glen's sanity and his marriage crumbles, his impotent angst finds an unlikely outlet, and he comes under ever more scrutiny by a strangely motivated detective.
Allison's triumph is the skillful rendering of Glen's transformation as a basically good guy whose fatal flaw leads him to a cataclysmically stupid decision.
And while other characters fare less well the cop on Glen's tail is straight out of an airport thriller, and Liz isn't given the chance to break through her mercenary and fundamentally unpleasant mold Allison's effortless prose and playful genre mixing showcase a burgeoning talent.
Annotation:
In this riveting novel, a happily married man makes a mistake that results in a teenager's death and sends his own life into a devastating tailspin.
Hardcover: 224 Pages Other Formats
Publisher: Free Press Languages: English ISBN-10: 1416543031
ISBN-13: 9781416543039
Product Dimensions: 8.10 x 5.10 x 0.90 inches
Shipping Weight: 0.60 ounces
Publication Date:
May 2011
Author: Will Allison
BISAC Categories:
Fiction > Literary
Fiction > Family Life
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Adults
