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*A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World.

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This astonishingly assured first novel, by an American working in London as a journalist, has a breathless readability that is rare...The book is more than just a compelling read: it also has poignant and moving things to say about lost opportunities and wasted lives in America, the cynical quality of sudden fame, the awfulness of willed separation from deeply loved children * Publishers Weekly, starred review *
Palm-tingling sensation ... captivating ... a completely convincing imaginative performance ... enthralling * THE TIMES *
THE HORSE WHISPERER recast by Patricia Highsmith ... a compulsive page-turner and a dark moral fable * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
Kennedy's skill is to send you racing down the slope of sheer story * ESQUIRE *
A ferociously plotted, hip and funny thriller * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *

The Big Picture

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    A Paperback / softback by Douglas Kennedy

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/08/2003
      ISBN13: 9780349117386, 978-0349117386
      ISBN10: 0349117381
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      *A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World.

      Trade Review
      This astonishingly assured first novel, by an American working in London as a journalist, has a breathless readability that is rare...The book is more than just a compelling read: it also has poignant and moving things to say about lost opportunities and wasted lives in America, the cynical quality of sudden fame, the awfulness of willed separation from deeply loved children * Publishers Weekly, starred review *
      Palm-tingling sensation ... captivating ... a completely convincing imaginative performance ... enthralling * THE TIMES *
      THE HORSE WHISPERER recast by Patricia Highsmith ... a compulsive page-turner and a dark moral fable * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
      Kennedy's skill is to send you racing down the slope of sheer story * ESQUIRE *
      A ferociously plotted, hip and funny thriller * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *

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