Coolly and compellingly narrated by a man dedicated to the examination of other people's pasts and the reconstruction of their lives, this is a brilliant, dark and gripping new novel that surpasses even Hart's masterpiece, Damage. A psychiatrist, Jack is divorced and has lost his wife to a more uxorious man. His own past and that of his beautiful, enigmatic sister Kate certainly bear scrutiny. But until he gets a phone call telling him that their family house in Ireland is for sale, he has absorbed himself in the problems ...
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Coolly and compellingly narrated by a man dedicated to the examination of other people's pasts and the reconstruction of their lives, this is a brilliant, dark and gripping new novel that surpasses even Hart's masterpiece, Damage. A psychiatrist, Jack is divorced and has lost his wife to a more uxorious man. His own past and that of his beautiful, enigmatic sister Kate certainly bear scrutiny. But until he gets a phone call telling him that their family house in Ireland is for sale, he has absorbed himself in the problems of others, delving into their minds while himself remaining on the surface. He has successfully suppressed the anguish of his past, but the present threatens to unravel around him. When he finally returns to the house in Ireland, terrible truths emerge about what happened there years ago in a family tragedy that left indelible marks on those who survived it. The facts have been reconstructed many times, but the shocking truth has not. This is a remarkable novel of startling psychological insight and power, about the reckless quality of exclusive love, about the damage that families do - and try, sometimes dangerously, to undo - and about the way we build our lives from fragments of memory, half-truth, compromise, and desire.
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Good in Very Good jacket. BE2-A tight, clean, sound copy in tan paper covered boards quarter bound in tan cloth with silver lettering and a graphic on the spine and a blind stamped graphic on the front with very minor overall shelf wear with the library mylar sleeve endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the front and back free endpapers, and the title page. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel about a psychiatrist, accustomed to examinig other people's pasts and helping them reconstructing their lives. This has allowed him to avoid coming to grips with his own life and this has both damaged his marriage and left his own past unexamined. His return to Ireland for the sale of his family home leads him to face a family tragedy and the appalling truths it represents. By the author of "Damage, " "Sin, " "Oblivion, " and "The Stillest Day." 218p.
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Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1585671703. Just a hint of rubbing, unopened, no creases. Advance Reader's edition/ Uncorrected Proof.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 288 pages.
