Suzanne Matson

A Trick of Nature: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"A compelling, unpredictable narrative that moves beyond its calm suburban setting into darker social and psychological territory...[Matson] is a writer of uncommon wisdom and emotional depth." Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers and Mrs. Fletcher

Greg Goodman is a very ordinary guya not-very-ambitious school teacher and football coach who takes his attractive wife, Patty, their twin adolescent daughters, and the comfortable ease of their suburban routine for granted. Until lightening strikesboth literally and figurativelyas Greg runs a pattern with his junior varsity team during a muggy August practice and fifteen-year-old Timothy Phelps is directly struck. This crisis threatens to unravel all the strands anchoring Greg to his normal habits of being. When Timothy's mother, a stripper and addict who abandoned Timothy as a child, enters the mix, Greg discovers his own complicated and misguided longings.

As in her debut novel, Suzanne Matson employs "crisp, clean writing...[and] compassionately drawn characters" (New York Times Book Review) to create a gripping story about the nature of love, trust, family, and marriage. Set in a seemingly safe world of split-levels and carefully tended lawns, A Trick of Nature powerfully captures the characters' emerging self-awareness as they are forced to test the assumptions they hold about themselves and the connections that bind them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393244359
• Artikelnr.: 59591917

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Matson, a 2012 fellow in fiction writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, is the author of four novels and two collections of poetry. She teaches at Boston College and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.