- Kidnapping, Families, Family life, Fiction
"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and spare.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Tim Johnston
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 499
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781616203047
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