Descent : a novel / Tim Johnston.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015Edition: First EditionDescription: 374 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1616203048 (hardcover)
- 9781616203047 (hardcover)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Mystery | Johnston Tim | Available | 33111007973320 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Read this astonishing novel . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston's story." --The Washington Post
The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic.
Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of the family searches for answers, Descent races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion.
"A compelling thriller that is both creepy and literary . . . Descent is not just a mystery. It is an emotional story of evil, fear, acceptance and irony." --The Denver Post
"What makes the novel unforgettable is its sense of character, its deliberate, unadorned prose and Johnston's unflinching exploration of human endurance, physical and psychological." --Miami Herald
"A super-charged, addictive read." --The Missourian
"An original and psychologically deep thriller." --Outside magazine
"Outstanding . . . The days when you had to choose between a great story and a great piece of writing? Gone." --Esquire
"[A] dazzling debut . . . Exquisitely crafted." --The Dallas Morning News
"Incredibly powerful, richly atmospheric." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
"[An] engulfing thriller-cum-western." --The New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant . . . As gripping as any Everest expedition." --Peter Heller, author of The Dog Stars
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited" -- Verso title page.
"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 all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life? In the weeks and months that follow, hope leads to disillusionment, and each of them--father, mother, son--withdraws into emotional isolation, individually assessing the blame and assuming the responsibility for their collective loss. Haunting and unforgettable, Descent is a novel that will grab the reader's heart and mind, and will linger there long after the last page is turned" -- Provided by publisher.