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Shipwreck

John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. In a mysterious cafe, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, his story about his affair with a younger woman and she is obsessed with him. As the hypnotic and serpentine confession unfurls, we gradually discover the extraordinary lengths to which North has gone to indulge a powerful desire for self-destruction.

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  • ""North has always been faithful to his wife, Lydia, but when one of his novels achieves a special success, he allows himself a dalliance with Lea, a starstruck young journalist. Coolly planning to make sure that his life with Lydia will not be disturbed, North is taken off guard when Lea becomes obsessed with him and he with her elaborate erotic games. As the hypnotic and serpentine confession unfurls, we gradually discover the extraordinary lengths to which North has gone to indulge a powerful desire for self-destruction."--Jacket."
  • "A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt. John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and bottles of whiskey consumed in a mysterious cafe called L'Entre Deux Mondes, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, the one story he has never told before, perhaps the only important one he will ever tell. North's chosen interlocutor'who could be his doppelgAnger'is transfixed by the revelations and becomes the narrator of North's tale. North has always been faithful to his wife, Lydia, but when one of his novels achieves a special success, he allows himself a dalliance with Lea, a starstruck young journalist. Coolly planning to make sure that his life with Lydia will not be disturbed, North is taken off guard when Lea becomes obsessed with him and he with her elaborate erotic games. As the hypnotic and serpentine confession unfurls, we gradually discover the extraordinary lengths to which North has gone to indulge a powerful desire for self-destruction. Shipwreck is a daring parable of the contradictory impulses that can rend a single soul'narcissism and self-loathing, refinement and lust. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Louis Begley's Memories of a Marriage."
  • "An award-winning American author who harbors deep doubts about his own talent falls off the fidelity wagon when he publishes an especially successful novel and soon finds himself erotically enmeshed with his new lover."
  • "John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. In a mysterious cafe, he recounts, in counterpoint to his doubts, his story about his affair with a younger woman and she is obsessed with him. As the hypnotic and serpentine confession unfurls, we gradually discover the extraordinary lengths to which North has gone to indulge a powerful desire for self-destruction."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "Shipwreck : [a novel]"
  • "Schiffbruch : Roman"
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  • "Shipwreck"

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