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Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced, married headmaster confesses to a much more serious crime.
Arthur reveals that he has had a passionate affair with a scholarship student called Betsy Pappas. But Betsy is a fickle and precocious teenager. When she switches her attentions to a classmate, Arthur's passion for Betsy turns, by degrees, into something far darker. Now Arthur must tell the truth about what happened to Betsy. But can Arthur's version of events be
trusted - or is the reality much more complex and unnerving?
The Headmaster's Wife is a dark, sinuous and compelling novel about marriage and obsessive love.
THE NUMBER ONE KINDLE BESTSELLER Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged
headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested
for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced,
married headmaster confesses to a much more serious crime. Arthur
reveals that he has had a passionate affair with a scholarship
student called Betsy Pappas. But Betsy is a fickle and precocious
teenager. When she switches her attentions to a classmate, Arthur's
passion for Betsy turns, by degrees, into something far darker. Now
Arthur must tell the truth about what happened to Betsy. But can
Arthur's version of events be trusted - or is the reality much more
complex and unnerving? The Headmaster's Wife is a dark, sinuous and
compelling novel about marriage and obsessive love.
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Mirror Lake (Paperback)
Thomas Christopher Greene
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"Mirror Lake" brilliantly explores life, death, love, and loss
against the backdrop of rural Vermont and the drama of its seasons.
Nathan Carter, a man in his twenties, moves from Boston to Eden,
Vermont, following the death of his father and the end of yet
another failed romance. When Carter's Jeep goes off the road in a
snowstorm, seventy-nine-year-old Wallace Fiske nurses him back to
health and the two become unlikely friends.
Wallace begins to tell Nathan his story, a love story he was
prepared to take to the grave with him. It is a tale of passion, of
obsession, and ultimately, of tragedy. Along the way, Nathan,
suspecting that Wallace is not telling him the whole truth, sets
out to discover for himself what happened here at the edge of this
small mountain lake fifty years before.
In the process, Nathan not only discovers Wallace's dark secret,
but also finds himself transformed by the experience, leading to an
unforgettable conclusion.
The novel unfolds between each man's present and past, and reveals
the loves and passions that have defined their lives.
"Mirror Lake" is a brilliant and suspenseful first novel about
love, marriage, friendship, and betrayal.
The lives of brothers Charlie and Owen Bender are changed
forever on the night their father walks into the Vermont woods with
a death wish and a shotgun. The second shock comes when his suicide
note bequeaths the family's restaurant to Charlie alone, while
leaving Owen with instructions to follow his own path, wherever it
may take him.
Years later, the restaurant is a success. The void in Charlie's
life, created by his beloved brother's absence, is finally filled
when a passionate affair becomes a deeply satisfying marriage. And
now prodigal son Owen is returning home, to be welcomed back into
the family fold. But the cruel legacy that tore a brotherhood apart
created wounds not easily healed . . . and there must be
reckoning.
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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