The Pact: A Love Story (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Softcover

Picoult, Jodi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061765236 ISBN 13: 9780061765230

Publisher: Avon A, 2009

Synopsis

From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish--and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone calls came at 3:00 a.m. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily has been shot to death by her beloved and devoted Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact--leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew.

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Review:

You will find this novel impossible to put down - and if you take it on holiday with you, just don't plan on doing any sightseeing until you've finished it! (Daily Mail)

The novelist displays an almost uncanny ability to enter the skins of her troubled young protagonists. (New York Times)

It's riveting . . . This is a brilliant read, filled with twists and turns (Woman Magazine)

Engrossing . . . Picoult has a remarkable ability to make us share her characters' feelings of confusion and horror . . . THE PACT is compelling reading (People)

Impossible to put down (Observer)

From the Author:

A page-turner with a heart.
As the author, I must have read THE PACT dozens of times, and the ending still gives me a jolt. I think it's because unlike most page turners or legal suspense novels, you get a chance to crawl into the minds of the characters. And what parent HASN'T wondered what they do---or do not know about a child? Happy reading...

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon A
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061765236
• ISBN 13: 9780061765230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 407