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The Walnut Door - John Hersey

By John Hersey

Release Date: 2019-09-04

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

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Writing at the height of his powers, John Hersey has created a taut, dazzling novel of suspense and revelationā€”in which we watch, mesmerized, the fateful convergence of two lives.
            A young woman, having fled from her suddenly unbearable ā€œcollege kidā€ selfā€”and from the place, even the lover, that were part of itā€”comes alone to a strange city, anxiously waiting for something new and important to beginā€¦.
            A manā€”breezy, ponytailed, beautifulā€”stranded by the passing of the sixties whose excitements had nurtured and consumed him, now lavishes his whole self on loving craftsmanship, on the construction of simple, perfect wooden doors, on the mystery of locks, and on the artful offering of security (his locks and doors) to women who are aloneā€¦.
            The meeting of these two, and their love affairā€”its choreography masterminded by one, unsuspected by the otherā€”are hypnotically told in a novel that illumines the fearful and the fear-makers in our decade.

The Walnut Door - John Hersey

By John Hersey

Release Date: 2019-09-04

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

(0 ratings)
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Writing at the height of his powers, John Hersey has created a taut, dazzling novel of suspense and revelationā€”in which we watch, mesmerized, the fateful convergence of two lives.
            A young woman, having fled from her suddenly unbearable ā€œcollege kidā€ selfā€”and from the place, even the lover, that were part of itā€”comes alone to a strange city, anxiously waiting for something new and important to beginā€¦.
            A manā€”breezy, ponytailed, beautifulā€”stranded by the passing of the sixties whose excitements had nurtured and consumed him, now lavishes his whole self on loving craftsmanship, on the construction of simple, perfect wooden doors, on the mystery of locks, and on the artful offering of security (his locks and doors) to women who are aloneā€¦.
            The meeting of these two, and their love affairā€”its choreography masterminded by one, unsuspected by the otherā€”are hypnotically told in a novel that illumines the fearful and the fear-makers in our decade.

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