The Good Father - Softcover

Hawley Noah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444768565 ISBN 13: 9781444768565

Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-03 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: Hodder Stoughton An intense. psychological novel about one doctors suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.As a rheumatologist. Dr. Paul Allens specialty is diagnosing patients other doctors have given up on. His son. Daniel Allen has always been a good kid but. as a child of divorce. he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why. at the age of nineteen. he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States. shedding his former skin and eventually even changing his name. One night. Paul is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot. and Daniel is the lead suspect. Convinced of his sons innocence Paul begins to trace his sons steps to ...

About this title

Product Description:

An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year old son.

Review:

Praise for THE GOOD FATHER: "The father of a man who assassinates a presidential candidate tries to make sense of his son's crime in Hawley's gripping new novel...With great skill, Hawley renders Dr. Allen's treacherous emotional geography, from his shock and guilt to his growing sense that he knows far less about his son than he thought...Hawley's complicated protagonist is a fully fathomed and beautifully realized character whose emotional growth never slows a narrative that races toward a satisfying and touching conclusion.""--Publishers Weekly, starred review"""The Good Father" is hypnotic and haunting and I lost all track of time when I was reading it. Suddenly the day had become night and still I was engrossed in one father's poignant story and Noah Hawley's mesmeric tales of a long litany of assassins."--Chris Bohjalian, author of "The Night Strangers, The Double Bind, " and "Secrets of Eden" "Brilliant and heartbreaking, "The Good Father" is a thriller, a mystery and above all else a savagely contemporary, hugely important story about the relationship between a father and the boy he left behind in his first, failed marriage. This is a rare and important book, and it will haunt the reader for a long time. It is impossible to read the final pages without weeping, and hard to read any of it without taking a long hard look at your own life, and the damage we do when we dare to love, or let love slip away."--Tony Parsons, author of "Man and Boy" "This book pulls off something close to impossible. It's both a thriller and a moving, literary novel. A tender father/son story I couldn't put down, a page-turner with depth." -- Stephen Elliott, author of "The Adderall Diaries"

About this edition

• Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1444768565
• ISBN 13: 9781444768565
• Binding: Paperback