$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780345476029
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Ballantine Books, 8/2009
The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways-and with
unexpected consequences-in acclaimed author Dan Chaon's gripping,
brilliantly written new novel.
Longing to get on with his life,
Miles Cheshire nevertheless can't stop searching for his troubled twin
brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered
his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing
along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he
meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always
concealed.
A few days after graduating from high school, Lucy
Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her
charismatic former history teacher. They arrive in Nebraska, in the
middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up
reservoir, to figure out the next move on their path to a new life. But
soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.
My whole life is a lie,
thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In
response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a
bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract
and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himself-through
unconventional and precarious means.
Await Your Reply is a
literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable
novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both
seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.