Heavy on anomie, these 11 stories focus on a well-tended company town, allied to a huge American electronics firm, where tragedy and bizarre behavior keep erupting in aimless but outwardly orderly lives. In ``Brilliant House,'' a retired circuit-make...
A study of a father-and-son relationship, which concerns Matthew Merriweather and his father, Walter. Matthew's twin is dead and now he has to come to terms with a new existence without his complex and dangerous twin. The death also affects Walter's ...
When David Webster, a young Southern writer, injures a mysterious woman in a car accident, he is drawn into an elaborate con game involving a redneck real-estate developer, Wall Street wheeler-dealers, sex, and murder....
Newton, Maryland, 1973. The Vietnam War is winding down, the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. And in this pristine and meticulously planned community, an innocent misunderstanding is about to set the two men who control its quiet streets on ...
It's the spring of 2001, and Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip away--his first marriage, his real estate brokerage, his beloved daughter, Shannon, now a distant and mysterious high school senior. He is in danger of losing his ...
A brief love affair turns into an overwhelming obsession in a new novel that brings the talents of a superb literary stylist to a work of suspense, with thrilling results. The beautiful younger woman who appeared so unexpectedly, so gloriously, in...
"‘Locust Lane’ is as perceptive as it is compulsively readable." -- The Washington PostFor fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story abou...