An affecting story about how relationships are built--and
burned--by desperate needs and obligations
When Henry Cooper sets out on his mail route on Arcadia Street one
crisp spring morning, he has no idea that his world is about to
change. He is simply enjoying the sunshine as he lights up a cigar
and tosses the match to the ground, entirely unaware that he has
just started a fire that will destroy a neighborhood and kill a
young wife.
Even though the fire has been put out, it has ignited a lurking
menace in an otherwise apparently peaceful suburb. In "Fellow
Mortals," Dennis Mahoney depicts the fire's aftermath in the lives
of its survivors. There's Henry's wife, Ava, devoted to her husband
but yearning to recover a simpler time in their marriage. There's
the angry neighbor, Peg, who wants Henry to pay for what he's done,
no matter the cost--which ends up being grave. And then there's Sam
Bailey, the sculptor who lost his wife in the fire and has
retreated to the woods to carve mysterious figures out of trees. As
Sam struggles to overcome his anger and loss, Henry becomes the
focal point of deepening loyalties and resentments, leaving them
all vulnerable to hidden dangers and reliant on the bonds that have
emerged, unexpectedly, from tragedy.
With sparse and handsome prose reminiscent of Raymond Carver and
early Stewart O'Nan, Mahoney's probing first novel charts the fall
of a man who has spent his life working to be decent and shows us a
community trying desperately to hold itself together.
General
Imprint: |
Farrar Straus Giroux
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2013 |
First published: |
February 2013 |
Authors: |
Dennis Mahoney
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Dimensions: |
181 x 127 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-374-15406-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-374-15406-6 |
Barcode: |
9780374154066 |
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