- Psychotherapist and patient, Fiction, Literature, Thriller
A brilliant debut novel - part psychological thriller, part literary horror story: think The Secret History meets The ExorcistGeorge Davies has a problem: he can't bring himself to hold his newborn son.
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Grave, spare, contemporary and earnest.
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- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Justin Evans
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press, Penguin Random House, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099520313
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