Synopsis
Mike was a lucky child: A vacation house on Long Island. Famous family friends. An Ivy League education. And also an older brother, Lyle, who looked out for him and protected him from his parents' volatile marriage.
In 2001, Mike is a summer intern at a magazine in Hong Kong. Sent on assignment to Bangkok to interview backpacker kids doing drugs and to track down a brilliant journalist gone AWOL, Mike finds the city electric with violence and hedonism, a dangerous blur of drugs and oblivion. Nothing goes according to plan.
When terrible news arrives from home, Mike rushes back to America. In the aftermath of tragedy, his brother, Lyle, is seeing things. He's unstable and suffering from visions of an imaginary third brother.
And then, a clear September morning is broken by catastrophe. While the Twin Towers burn, Mike makes an epic trek through the ghostly streets of New York to find his brother, to save him.
From Patpong to the World Trade Center to Harvard Yard, as his life and country come apart, Mike struggles to find his footing and go on. The joke, it turns out, is on him.
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"'Spare, stylish and indisputably the real thing.' Independent on Sunday * 'An accomplished work, written with his trademark poetic sparsity and short cinematic narrative snapshots... his talent is remarkable... it is astonishing.' Suzanne Harrington, Irish Examiner * 'Nick McDonell is another literary wunderkind who has dared to engage the subject of September 11... one of the best evocations of that day I've read.' Jay McInernay, Guardian * 'Outstanding... substantial and impressive.' Andrew Biswell, Scotland on Sunday * 'In The Third Brother, we see a penetrating, empathetic intelligence at work... Nick McDonell is a true stylist.' David Mattin, Independent on Sunday"
About the Author
Nick McDonell was born in 1984 in New York City.
William Dufris has been nominated nine times as a finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award and has garnered tweny-one Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which also named him one of the Best Voices at the End of the Century.
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