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Reservation Road [sound recording]

A psychological novel on a hit-and-run accident that killed a boy. The boy's father searches for the motorist to punish him, the police having given up. The motorist--who was driving with his son from a hockey game--stays low, half-hoping he will be caught.

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  • "Un père voit mourir sous ses yeux, par une heureuse fin d'après-midi d'été, son fils, fauché par un chauffard sur une route déserte et noire. Dès lors, il s'engage à la recherche du meurtrier. Deux pères vont s'opposer : celui de la victime et celui du meurtrier."
  • "A psychological novel on a hit-and-run accident that killed a boy. The boy's father searches for the motorist to punish him, the police having given up. The motorist--who was driving with his son from a hockey game--stays low, half-hoping he will be caught."
  • "A psychological novel on a hit-and-run accident that killed a boy. The boy's father searches for the motorist to punish him, the police having given up. The motorist--who was driving with his son from a hockey game--stays low, half-hoping he will be caught."@en
  • "A hit-and-run accident that claims the life of ten-year-old Josh Learner ultimately leads to a chilling confrontation between the driver responsible for the death and Ethan Learner, the boy's vengeful father."@en
  • "Een vader maakt jacht op de automobilist die zijn zoontje doodreed en daarna doorreed."
  • "Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding the unexpected and horrendous death of ten-year-old Josh in a hit and run accident. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college and father of Josh, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart."@en
  • "At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family - Ethan and Grace, their children, Josh and Emma - stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner, lost in a ten-year-old's private world, is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. He is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away. The hit-and-run driver is a small-town lawyer named Dwight Arno, a man in desperate need of a second chance. Dwight is also the father of a ten-year-old boy, who was asleep in the car the night Josh Learner was killed."
  • "A small-town lawyer races around a bend, hits another car, and kills a ten-year-old boy. Now he must decide whether to run, or pay the price for what he did."
  • ""Explain this to me: One minute there is a boy, a life thrumming with possibilities, and the next there are marked cars and strangers in uniform and the fractured whirling lights. And that, suddenly, is all the world has to offer." This is the voice of Ethan Learner, a college professor who has just watched his 10-year-old son, Josh, die in a hit-and-run accident on a silent Connecticut road. John Burnham Schwartz's Bicycle Days (1989) received favorable reviews but seemed very much an autobiographical first novel. His second fiction, Reservation Road, however, is a book that resists genres: a tragedy where all the characters are flawed and none are entirely guilty; a thriller where the killer, Dwight, wants to be caught but is too laden with self-loathing to turn himself in; and an experimental novel where the narrative jumps gracefully among three perspectives. In the opening pages Schwartz establishes strong connections between fathers and sons. Moments before the accident Ethan watches his son standing precariously close to the curb; he sees possibilities in Josh, a shy boy whose musical gifts indicate a sensitivity that is no less present, though more mature, in his father. At the same time, Dwight and his son, Sam (also 10), are rushing home from an extra-innings Red Sox game where Dwight tries to rebuild the fragments of attachment left after a bitter divorce. Schwartz reveals depth in simple gestures--a hand, for example, placed in a hand, only to be self-consciously pulled away. Dwight drives on after hitting Josh, though he slows in a moment of hesitation in which Ethan hears him calling "Sam" or "Sham"--He's not sure which. Out of grief, and with only scattered clues, Ethan begins his quiet pursuit of the killer, a pursuit that fuels the novel to its poetic conclusion. In Reservation Road, John Burnham Schwartz has crafted a lasting work of literature, a page-turner that's also a rich character study."@en
  • "At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family--Ethan and Grace, their children, Josh and Emma--stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner, lost in a ten-year-old's private world, is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. He is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away. From this moment forward, Reservation Road becomes a harrowing countdown to the confrontation between two very different men. The hit-and-run driver is a small-town lawyer named Dwight Arno, a man in desp."@en
  • "A hit-and-run accident that claims the life of ten-year-old Josh Learner leads to a chilling confrontation between the driver responsible for the death and Josh's father, who embarks on a deadly pursuit of the man who killed his son."
  • "A hit-and-run accident that claims the life of ten-year-old Josh Learner leads to a chilling confrontation between the driver responsible for the death and Josh's father, who embarks on a deadly pursuit of the man who killed his son."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Thriller"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Thrillers (novels)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Motion picture plays"@en
  • "Thrillery (romány)"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "American fiction"

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  • "Reservation Road [sound recording]"@en
  • "Reservation Road : [a novel]"
  • "Au bout de la route : roman"
  • "Reservation road"
  • "Reservation road"@en
  • "Hetki pimeässä"@fi
  • "Een noodlottige avond"
  • "내생애가장슬픈오후 = Reservation road"
  • "Reservation road : roman"
  • "Eine Sekunde nur Roman"
  • "Pomsta"
  • "Reservation road a novel"
  • "Reservation road : [screenplay]"@en
  • "Au bout de la route"
  • "Droga do przebaczenia"
  • "Droga do przebaczenia"@pl
  • "Nae saengae kajang sŭlp'un ohu = Reservation road"
  • "Reservation Road"
  • "Reservation Road"@en
  • "Eine Sekunde nur : Roman"

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