Reap - Hardcover

Rickstad, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670885177 ISBN 13: 9780670885176

Publisher: Viking, 2000

Synopsis

Like a cross between Denis Johnson's Already Dead and David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Reap draws us into the hot, still air of a summer backwoods at whose fringes lurk danger and epiphany. Jessup Burke, a lonely, naive sixteen-year old, has grown up without a father in a jobless, indifferent logging town. Out of high school a year early, he now bikes through the woods with his fishing gear, daydreaming of his sweetheart and their secret "home" in an abandoned farmhouse. When Reg, an embittered, paranoid recluse fresh out of jail for growing marijuana, encounters Jessup hitchhiking, he is at first drawn to the boy's easily manipulated naivete, but the two soon become irreversibly bound. As Jessup unknowingly participates in Reg's perilous, criminal behavior, he also endangers himself when his relationship with Marigold, Reg's younger, married sister, goes beyond friendship.Jessup's rude awakening into adulthood is rendered in sure and supple prose in this dramatic, action-packed novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric Rickstad is the New York Times, USA Today, and International Bestselling author of the forthcoming THE NAMES OF DEAD GIRLS, THE SILENT GIRLS, LIE IN WAIT and REAP. His novels are heralded as intelligent and profound, dark, disturbing, and heartbreaking. He lives in his home state of Vermont. He is represented by Philip Spitzer of the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency.

Synopsis:

Innocent and confused, fatherless Vermont sixteen-year-old Jessup Burke prowls the woods around his logging hometown daydreaming of romance, but his life takes a turn when he meets an exploitative ex-con, Reg, and his younger married sister, Marigold.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0670885177
• ISBN 13: 9780670885176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272