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Christine Ward, a painter, is on the train from New Haven to New York when she spots a name written in the datebook of the woman sitting next to her: Orin Pierce, the name of an old friend from college who was killed in a car crash 20 years before. With very little to go on, she obsessively hunts down the man bearing that name--a middle-aged New York City realtor who claims not to be the man she thinks she is. But is he telling the truth? Imperiling her long relationship with her live-in boyfriend back in New Haven, Christine enters into a passionate affair with Pierce in an attempt to find out who he is--and who she is.
| Size | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"A chilling, eloquent novel that draws you in with mystery and holds you there with love, obsession, failure, insanity, and an enchanting hybrid of past and present...Florey infuses her typically irresistible characters with a depth and darkness that gives her newest work a coherent vision and lasting effect."
"A smart, stylish, compelling thriller that remains, right to the end, as deeply mysterious as the subjects (identity, obsession, and desire) that drive its narrative."
book jacket - Richard Russo
"An uncompromising portrait of a contemporary woman in crisis."
"The plot opens like a trap door to a dark and sinister dimension...The novel's relentless tension is that of the heart seeking the dead among the living."
"Florey writes with straightforward simplicity, and readers will quickly find themselves not only laughing with Christine at her own absurdity, but feeling her bleak, chronic pain. Soon obsessed with not only her friend's death, but her brother's, she succumbs to the instability that deprived her of her only child. Through almost the entire book, Florey manages to balance the ambiguity of events with Christine's clarity in the face of them."
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