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The Night Following
by Joss, Morag
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385341180
- ISBN 13
- 9780385341189
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press/ Bantam Dell/Random House, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Remainder First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. The author is a winner of the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award. "--one of the freshest, keenist mystery-writing voices to come out of the United Kingdom since Ruth Rendell". The book has light wear to rear spine heel corner and remainder red dot on lower edge, otherwise in Fine Condition. A story with great psychological insight into guilt and loss, of the fine line between the sane and the mad, and with mastery of the depiction of mood. The day is blustery, the doctor's wife is upset from just finding out her husband is having an affair and she is driving down a winding country road when she hits and kills a sixty-one year old lady riding a bicycle. She drives on and tells no one. She is horrified and begins to unravel. She turns her attention to the grief stricken husband. Tension, grief, guilt, suspense, as this situation rapidly deteriorates. 354 pages. 2008, Delacorte Press/ Bantam Dell/Random House, USA
Synopsis
On a blustery April day, the quiet, rather private wife of a doctor discovers that her husband has been having an affair. Moments later, driving along a winding country road and distracted perhaps by her own thoughts, perhaps blinded by sunlight, she fails to see sixty-one-year-old Ruth Mitchell up ahead, riding her bicycle. She hits her, killing her instantly. And drives away.The hit-and-run driver is never found. But the doctor's wife, horrified by what she has done, begins to unravel. Soon she turns her attention to Ruth's bereaved husband, a man staggering sleeplessly through each night, as unhinged by grief as the killer is by guilt.Arthur Mitchell does not realize at first that someone has begun watching him through his windows, worrying over his disheveled appearance, his increasingly chaotic home. And when at last she steps through his doorway, secretly at first, then more boldly, he is ready to believe that, for reasons beyond his understanding, his wife has somehow been returned to him....A story of loss, lies, and wrongdoing, astonishingly complex and ingeniously inventive, The Night Following is also a love story and the extraordinarily moving tale of a killer's journey from the shadows into the light. It confirms the mastery of a writer who is both tender and unflinching in her examination of human frailty--and of the shattering repercussions of deception.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023518
- Title
- The Night Following
- Author
- Joss, Morag
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385341180
- ISBN 13
- 9780385341189
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press/ Bantam Dell/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- CRIME MURDER VICTIMS' FAMILIES MURDERERS PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION
- X weight
- 0 oz
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