The Woman in the Fifth: A Novel - Softcover

Kennedy, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451602111 ISBN 13: 9781451602111

Publisher: Atria Books, 2011

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World and The Moment comes the riveting story of a luckless college professor for whom Paris becomes a city of mortal danger.

A runaway bestseller in the UK and France that has been made into a film starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas, this suspenseful tour de force from the internationally renowned Douglas Kennedy is the quintessential sophisticated commercial novel.

Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job, his marriage, and the love of his only child. Hounded by scandal, he flees to Paris, where a series of accidental encounters lands him in a grubby room with a job as night watchman for a sinister operation. Just when he begins to think he has hit rock bottom, romance enters his life in the form of Margit--a cultivated, widowed Hungarian émigré who shares Harry's profound loneliness but who keeps her distance, remaining guarded about her past. As Harry wrestles with Margit's reticence, he begins to notice that all those who have recently done him wrong are meeting unfortunate ends--and it soon becomes apparent that he has stumbled into a nightmare from which there is no escape.

The Woman in the Fifth further establishes Douglas Kennedy as an author who "always has his brilliant finger on the entertaining parts of human sorrow, fury, and narrow escapes" (Lorrie Moore).

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Review:

“In his fast-paced, engrossing novels Douglas Kennedy always has his brilliant finger on the entertaining parts of human sorrow, fury, and narrow escapes.” —Lorrie Moore, "New York Times "bestselling author of "A Gate at the Stairs"

“Extraordinarily compelling.” —"Daily Mirror" (London)

“Kennedy cannot help but write grippingly.” —"Observer" (London)

“A thriller for people who don’t like thrillers; a romance for people who don’t like romances; a philosophical enquiry into the nature of truth and a thumping good read.... Nail-bitingly compulsive. Kennedy has done it again.” —"The Times "(London)

“Kennedy is a master storyteller, who never fails to keep you gripped until the last page.” —Sarah Dunant, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Sacred Hearts"

"Extraordinarily compelling." --"Daily Mirror" (London)

"Kennedy cannot help but write grippingly." --"Observer" (London)

"A thriller for people who don't like thrillers; a romance for people who don't like romances; a philosophical enquiry into the nature of truth and a thumping good read.... Nail-bitingly compulsive. Kennedy has done it again." --"The Times "(London)

"In his fast-paced, engrossing novels Douglas Kennedy always has his brilliant finger on the entertaining parts of human sorrow, fury, and narrow escapes." --Lorrie Moore, "New York Times "bestselling author of "A Gate at the Stairs"

"Kennedy is a master storyteller, who never fails to keep you gripped until the last page." --Sarah Dunant, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Sacred Hearts"

Book Description:

Douglas Kennedy's bestselling novel, now reissued to tie-in with the major film starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1451602111
• ISBN 13: 9781451602111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352