Criminals: A Novel - Hardcover

Livesey, Margot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679444874 ISBN 13: 9780679444879

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

Synopsis

A decent, harried young banker, already on the verge of distraction, hurries north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister...A "foreign" mother struggles to make a home for her family in a society she only vaguely comprehends...A baby girl is abandoned in a bus-station rest room...And thus five lives and more are caught up in a binding net of affection and responsibility, of sibling loyalty, romantic longing, and maternal love.

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Review:

"A wonderful novel, impeccably written and thoroughly engrossing."--"The New York Times Book Review"

"Where do love, honesty, and responsibility intersect? . . . A provocative rumination on family and what it means to do the right thing."--"Glamour"
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""Funny, suspenseful, and sometimes creepy."--"Los Angeles Times"
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""One of the most surprising thrillers of the year--completely offbeat, unexpected, and unique. Margot Livesey is right up there in the realm of P. D. James."--
"Newsday"

"A story of many kinds of love, indifference, secrecy, and blind selfishness that drives as fiercely to its surprising conclusion as any thriller."--Rosellen Brown

A wonderful novel, impeccably written and thoroughly engrossing. "The New York Times Book Review"

Where do love, honesty, and responsibility intersect? . . . A provocative rumination on family and what it means to do the right thing. "Glamour"

Funny, suspenseful, and sometimes creepy. "Los Angeles Times"

One of the most surprising thrillers of the year--completely offbeat, unexpected, and unique. Margot Livesey is right up there in the realm of P. D. James. "Newsday"

A story of many kinds of love, indifference, secrecy, and blind selfishness that drives as fiercely to its surprising conclusion as any thriller. "Rosellen Brown""

"A wonderful novel, impeccably written and thoroughly engrossing." --The New York Times Book Review

"Where do love, honesty, and responsibility intersect? . . . A provocative rumination on family and what it means to do the right thing." --Glamour

"Funny, suspenseful, and sometimes creepy." --Los Angeles Times

"One of the most surprising thrillers of the year--completely offbeat, unexpected, and unique. Margot Livesey is right up there in the realm of P. D. James." --Newsday

"A story of many kinds of love, indifference, secrecy, and blind selfishness that drives as fiercely to its surprising conclusion as any thriller." --Rosellen Brown

From the Back Cover:

A decent, harried young banker travels north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister. A single mother struggles to make a home for her family in a society she only vaguely comprehends. A baby girl is abandoned in a bus station and picked up by a stranger. A caller leaves threatening messages.

Brilliantly structured and tense, Criminals shows how the best intentions can have the worst results - and how families pull together, form themselves anew, and, occasionally, tear themselves apart.

'A stunning tour de force, suspenseful, beautifully observed...a wonderfully ironic meditation on the marriage of seemingly random trajectories known as fate...a great read and a literary pleasure' Jayne Anne Phillips

'One of the strongest and subtlest voices in Scottish fiction' Glasgow Herald

'Extremely compelling...superbly crafted' Time Out

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679444874
• ISBN 13: 9780679444879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271