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Decent : a novel

Johnston, Tim, 1962-2015
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"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Title page verso. "Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until
Main title:
Decent : a novel / by Tim Johnston.
Imprint:
Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, NC 2015.
Collation:
p. cm.
Notes:
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited" -- Verso title page.
ISBN:
9781616203047
Dewey class:
G
LC class:
PS3610.O395
Local class:
AF
Language:
English
BRN:
3536290
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