Strange But True Contributor(s): Searles, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060721790 ISBN-13: 9780060721794 Publisher: William Morrow & Company
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2005 Annotation: This novel moves in unexpected directions from a family drama into a kind of mystery/thriller when Melissa Moody, girlfriend to Ronnie Chase, who died five years earlier in a car crash, tells Ronnie's brother and his cantankerous mother that she's pregnant with Ronnie's child. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Family Life - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.86" W x 8.06" L (0.55 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Topical - Family |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 78 New York Times 08/28/2005 pg. 24 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 86766 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Now a Major Motion Picture starring Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Blythe Danner. "Sinister and complex.... You'll race right through it."--New York Times After a mysterious fall from his New York City apartment, Philip Chase has moved back home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death of her younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Surrounded by memories of the family he no longer has, and trying to forget the reasons he left New York, Philip is in stasis. But everything changes late one windy February night when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up on their doorstep. A sad young woman who still bears the scars of the accident that took Ronnie's life, Melissa is nine months pregnant. The father, she claims, is Ronnie. Now Philip and his mother must confront not only Melissa's past but also their own: the secrets each has buried and the lies each has told. But not everyone wants the past exposed.... At once a moving story of redemption and a heart-stopping work of suspense, Strange but True "will hold you transfixed" (Salon.com). |
Contributor Bio(s): Searles, John: - John Searles is the author of the bestsellers Boy Still Missing and Strange but True. He appears as a book critic on NBC's Today Show, and his essays have been published in the New York Times and Washington Post. He has a master's degree in creative writing from New York University and lives in New York City. |
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