The Death of All Things Seen - Softcover

Collins, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178497496X ISBN 13: 9781784974961

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2017

Synopsis

It's 2008 and Norman Price—a moderately successful 40-something playwright living in Chicago—considers the shuddering impact of the financial crash. What's needed, he thinks, is the will for a new existence. When his parents die, one shortly after the other, The New Existence becomes Norman's mantra as he tries to recalibrate his own shaken world. Into Norman's tentative re-building, a couple of bombshells are dropped. His parents' old house has to go on the market, forcing him to revisit the past. And then he receives a mysterious email from a man he has never met but whose name is instantly, painfully, familiar. Norman's new existence is suddenly threatened by past secrets. Michael Collins takes post 9/11 America as the background for a deeply moving novel about complex identities and the fragility of humanity.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Collins is the author of Death of a Writer, The Keepers of Truth, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Lost Souls. His books have been translated into 20 languages and have twice been included in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He divides his life between Dublin and a small town near Chicago.

Review:

"A gifted writer—spare and elegant in his prose, unsentimental about his rough and damaged characters." —Entertainment Weekly on Lost Souls

"A haunting, searing, and elegiac treatise on the masks we wear. . . . A totally absorbing and beautiful book." —Michael Connelly on Lost Souls

"[A] wonderfully creepy murder mystery . . . an intellectually vigorous, emotionally bracing read." —People Magazine on Death of a Writer

About this edition

• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178497496X
• ISBN 13: 9781784974961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336