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Descent

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Description for Descent Paperback. The Courtlands, a family from the plains are taking their last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner's heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her brother go for an morning run, only he returns. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 26. .
As their world comes undone, the Courtlands are drawn into a vortex of dread and recrimination. Why weren't they more careful? What has happened to their daughter? Is she alive? Will they ever know? Caitlin's disappearance, all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths until all that continues to bind them together are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point will a girl stop fighting for her life? Written with a precision that captures ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Algonquin Books (division of Workman) United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
411g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781616204778
SKU
V9781616204778
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About Tim Johnston
Tim Johnston, a native of Iowa City, is the author of The Current and the New York Times bestseller Descent, as well as a young adult novel, Never So Green, and the story collection Irish Girl, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.

Reviews for Descent
Descent is the best novel I've read in a long time. Unlike most books that fall into the category of Page Turner, this one also falls in the category of Writing So Good You Can't Even Believe It. Johnston has a superhuman gift for watching and listening to the world and rendering, on the page, its beauty and savagery with ... Read more

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