Loss of Innocence

Pub Date: 2014-06-03 Pages: 391 Language: English Publisher: Quercus Number one New York Times best-selling author Richard North Patterson. author of more than twenty novels. including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness. returns with a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings. Loss of Innocence. the second book in the Blaine trilogy. in one life of the 1960s. symbolizes a movement that keeps changing all our lives (Gloria Steinem) in a richly-layered look at the loss of innocence not only among his characters but that which America lost as a nation (Marthas Vineyard Times) An extraordinary novel -. profound. emotionally involving and totally addictive. said actor and author Stephen Fry. this may be Richard North Pattersons best work In. 1968 America is in turmoil. engulfed in civil unrest and in the midst of an unpopular war Yet for Whitney Dane -. spe...

Richard North Patterson is the author of twenty bestselling novels, including Garden of Eden, Exile, Degree of Guilt, and Silent Witness. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Hardball, and The CBS Morning Show, and his articles on politics, literature, and law have been published inThe London Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Jose Mercury News. He lives in Martha’s Vineyard, Cabo San Lucas, and San Francisco with his wife, Dr. Nancy Clair.


From the Hardcover edition.