The Double Bind

Zusatztext "Bohjalian is a master of literary suspense. . . . [His] are the sorts of books people stay awake all night to finish." — The Washington Post Book World "Artfully constructed and fiercely felt. . . . Bohjalian is . . . rearranging our previous assumptions! producing the sense of shock we felt viewing The Sixth Sense ." — The Miami Herald "Terrifying. . . . Laurel is an unforgettable! vulnerable! complicated character." — The Los Angeles Times " The Double Bind is simply one of the best written! most compelling! artfully woven novels to grace bookshelves in years. Immediately after the spellbinding surprise ending! readers will want to begin again. . . . It's THAT good." — The Associated Press “The sort of book you want to read in one sitting! and it packs a twist at the end that will leave you speechless.” —Jodi Picoult"Harrowing.... The Double Bind has a powerful statement to make about the nature of obsession and mental illness! as well as the lingering effects of psychological trauma.... A stunner." — The St. Petersburg Times "Great fiction... un-put-down-able." — People "Ingenious.... He's compassionate about mental illness! wise about the healing power of art. He moves easily and convincingly back and forth from different points of view and manages to create authentic voices." — The Boston Globe "A psychological thriller . . . a chilling depiction of the ways we choose to remember as well as what we forget." — New York Daily News "A page-turner with a wicked twist at the end." -— Life Magazine Informationen zum Autor Chris Bohjalian Klappentext From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant! here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence.When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont's back roads! her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing! Laurel withdraws into her photography! spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker! a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won't let anyone see. When Bobbie dies! Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret-a story that leads her far from her old life! and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century! between Jay Gatsby's Long Island and rural New England! bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written an extraordinary novel. Leseprobe Prologue   Laurel Estabrook was nearly raped the fall of her sophomore year of college. Quite likely she was nearly murdered that autumn. This was no date-rape disaster with a handsome, entitled UVM frat boy after the two of them had spent too much time flirting beside the bulbous steel of a beer keg; this was one of those violent, sinister attacks involving masked men–yes, men, plural, and they actually were wearing wool ski masks that shielded all but their eyes and the snarling rifts of their mouths–that one presumes only happens to other women in distant states. To victims whose faces appear on the morning news programs, and whose devastated, forever-wrecked mothers are interviewed by strikingly beautiful anchorwomen. She was biking on a wooded dirt road twenty miles northeast of the college in a town with a name that was both ominous and oxy-moronic: Underhill. In all fairness, the girl did not find the name Underhill menacing before she was assaulted. But she also did not return there for any reason in the years after the attack. It was somewhere around six-thirty on a Sunday evening, and this was the third Sunday in a row that she had packed her well-traveled mountain bike into the back of her roommate Talia’s station wagon and driven to Underhill to ride for miles and miles along the logging roads that snaked through...

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• Autori: Chris Bohjalian, Chris A. Bohjalian
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.02.2008
• EAN: 9781400031665
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-3166-5
• Pagine: 416
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi