The River of Dead Trees

Michaud, Andrée A.

ISBN 10: 1552451747 / ISBN 13: 9781552451748

Edité par Coach House Books, 2002

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2006 stated 1st English language edition inscribed (which always means to a particular person) by the author on the title page. Surface tear on bar code on back cover, else fine .

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1635268502431

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The River of Dead Trees
• Éditeur: Coach House Books
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1552451747
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781552451748
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Signé: Inscribed by Author

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Synopsis

Middle-aged and short on prospects, Charles Wilson returns to Trempes, the village of his childhood, and discovers the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where they played as boys. Thus begins Wilson's obsessive quest to exhume the secrets of his past and to understand the reasons for his friend's death. But memories shift, people change and things are never as they seem. Soon Wilson finds himself caught up in a delusory spiral that threatens his very existence.

This is at once a neo-Gothic metaphysical thriller and a meticulous meditation on the unapologetic betrayal of memory and imagination. Wilson's story bubbles up from the faults between mystery and fairy tale, brimming with characters haunted and tortured by the past, where truth and deception are wound up in time like the gnarled branches of old, grizzled trees.