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THE MYSTERY OF RIGHT AND WRONG
(Paperback Book)
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"An absolutely unforgettable novel." - Ian Williams
A masterwork from one of the country's most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that grapples with male violence, sexual abuse, and madness. Complusively readable and heartstopping.
Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John's, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he enÂcounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.
Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughÂters, each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldÂest, Gloria, has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner dealer husband can lay his hands on. BethaÂny, the most sardonic of the sisters, is fighting a losÂing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond - an obsession that has deeper and more disÂturbing roots than Wade could ever have imagined.
Confronting the central mystery of his character Rachel's life - and his own - Wayne Johnston has created a brilliant and searing tour de force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to foreÂsee.
"An absolutely unforgettable novel." - Ian Williams
A masterwork from one of the country's most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that grapples with male violence, sexual abuse, and madness. Complusively readable and heartstopping.
Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John's, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he enÂcounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.
Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughÂters, each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldÂest, Gloria, has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner dealer husband can lay his hands on. BethaÂny, the most sardonic of the sisters, is fighting a losÂing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond - an obsession that has deeper and more disÂturbing roots than Wade could ever have imagined.
Confronting the central mystery of his character Rachel's life - and his own - Wayne Johnston has created a brilliant and searing tour de force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to foreÂsee.
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