An immensely talented writer whose work has been described as
"incandescent" (Kirkus) and "poetic" (Booklist), Thomas Christopher
Greene pens a haunting and deeply affecting portrait of one couple
at their best and worst.
Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy
and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his
father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's
elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his
life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of
his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to
tell his story to the police, but his memories collide into one
another, and the true nature of things, a narrative of love, of
marriage, of family and of a tragedy Arthur does not know how to
address emerges. Luminous and atmospheric, bringing to life the
tight-knit enclave of a quintessential New England boarding school,
the novel is part mystery, part love story and an exploration of
the ties of place and family. Beautifully written and compulsively
readable, The Headmaster's Wife stands as a moving elegy to the
power of love as an antidote to grief.
"A truly remarkable novel, I read the second half of "The
Headmaster's Wife" with my mouth open, my jaw having dropped at the
end of the first half. Thomas Christopher Greene knows how to hook
a reader and land him." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning
author of "Empire Falls""An accomplished and artful storyteller,
Greene has surprises in store as he unspools a plot that becomes as
poignant as it is unpredictable." --Wally Lamb, "New York Times"
bestselling author of "The Hour I First Believed"
"Greene's genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both
the predatory lasciviousness of Nabokov's classic, "Lolita," and
the anxious ambiguity of Gillian Flynn's contemporary thriller,
"Gone Girl "(2012)." --"Booklist"
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