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"A powerful and affecting novel...haunting...highly suspenseful...compelling to read."
--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Spellbinding...a haunting tale"
--Booklist
"A poignant thriller...quietly breathtaking...a suspenseful literary novel"
--Betsey Osborne, Vanity Fair
"A pleasure to read. Suspense is redefined here..."
--Sandra Scofield, Newsday
"A lovely book, full of life and feeling"
--Peter Matthiessen
"One of those rare--very rare--novels that you don't so much read as inhabit...But it's the novel's conclusion, as perfect as it is sudden, shocking and completely unexpected, that will stick in your memory."
--Tom Dehaven, Entertainment Weekly
"A beautiful novel. An important novel"
--David Bowman, New York Observer
"Both a beautiful, wrenching story of redemption, and a novel of exquisite suspense"
--Anne Lamott
"A first-rate work of fiction disguised as a page-turning thriller"
--David Halberstam
"An unexpected pleasure...It will leave the reader entranced as well as moved."
--Erica Noonan, Boston Herald
"A non-stop read...a wonderful writer"
--Ward Just
"A triumph of form, pacing and power...character-driven as it is, it reads like a thrille, swift and complete."
--Kit Reed, New York Times Book Review
"It possesses a conclusion of such power that it would be a literary crime to reveal it."
--Deirdre Donahue, USA Today
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Book Description Condition: Good. Audio book; 2 cassettes; 3 hours long; ex-library in plastic case. Seller Inventory # 53K000001DDJ
Book Description AUDIO CASSETTE. Condition: Good. 2 AUDIO CASSETTES withdrawn from the library collection. Some library marking. Each cassette is tested prior to shipping for quality of sound. You will receive a good set. Enjoy this reliable Audio Cassette performance. Seller Inventory # 861215201586204
Book Description Two cassette tapes, as new, in VG blue pictorial box. Read by John Shea, Stanley Tucci and Anne Twomey. 3 hours playing time. A riveting novel of feeling and suspense in which grief and punishment become tragically intertwined. At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family - Ethan and Grace, their children, Josh and Emma - stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner, lost in a ten-year-old's private world, is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. He is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away. . Book. Seller Inventory # 53511