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Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover - up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, now fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn't revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that he's hidden. Sam, Dwight's estranged college - age son, has shown up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. In its way, Sam's sense of guilt is as crushing as his father's. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half - buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption and love. In turn, they dramatically transform the lives of the women around them: the ex - wives, mothers, and lovers they have turned to in their desperate attempts to somehow rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past. Told in the resonant voices of everyday people gripped in the emotional riptide of lived life, ''Northwest Corner'' is at once tough and heart - lifting, an urgent, powerful story about family bonds that can never be broken and the wayward roads that lead us back to those we love.
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"A compelling tale of a family . . . finding their way back together again."--The Christian Science Monitor
"Stark and deeply affecting . . . Readers will grow to care deeply about whether and how [the characters'] lives can be redeemed."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The masterful Northwest Corner is that finest of things--a moral novel about mortal events."--Dennis Lehane
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"A great American novel."--Abraham Verghese
"Nuanced and moving . . . [a] story about the indestructible bonds of family."--The New York Times "One of the most emotionally commanding novels of the year."--NPR "Exhilarating . . . In Schwartz's hands, the narrative unfolds delicately, each chapter a puzzle piece that fits seamlessly into the whole. [Grade: ] A."--Entertainment Weekly"A compelling tale of a family . . . finding their way back together again."--The Christian Science Monitor
"Stark and deeply affecting . . . Readers will grow to care deeply about whether and how [the characters'] lives can be redeemed."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The masterful Northwest Corner is that finest of things--a moral novel about mortal events."--Dennis Lehane
A moving and stunningly well reviewed novel of love, redemption and the power of family bonds.
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- PublisherReadHowYouWant
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1459672844
- ISBN 13 9781459672840
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages360
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