Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America''s greatest novelists.
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent''s misery - is shatteredAfter the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime''s regret.
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
176 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Vintage Publishing |
Utgivningsdatum |
2012-07-05 |
ISBN |
9780099560937 |