Duplicate Keys - Hardcover

Smiley, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394530659 ISBN 13: 9780394530659

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984

Synopsis

A circle of college friends, centered on a suddenly successful rock group recently based in New York, is shocked and haunted when two of them are found dead--murdered in the band's New York apartment

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About the Author

JANE SMILEY is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and more than ten other works of fiction, including Horse Heaven, Moo, and The Greenlanders. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in northern California.

From the Back Cover

Alice Ellis is a Midwestern refugee living in Manhattan. Still recovering from a painful divorce, she depends on the companionship and camaraderie of tightly knit circle of friends. At the center of this circle is a rock band struggling to navigate New York's erratic music scene, and an apartment/practice space with approximately fifty key-holders. One sunny day, Alice enters the apartment and finds two of the band members shot dead. As the double-murder sends waves of shock through their lives, this group of friends begins to unravel, and dangerous secrets are revealed one by one. When Alice begins to notice things amiss in her own apartment, the tension breaks out as it occurs to her that she is not the only person with a key, and she may not get a chance to change the locks.
Jane Smiley applies her distinctive rendering of time, place, and the enigmatic intricacies of personal relationships to the twists and turns of suspense. The result is a brilliant literary thriller that will keep readers guessing up to its final, shocking conclusion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394530659
• ISBN 13: 9780394530659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 305