Sign-In
Cart
A Defect of Character
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781929257119
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 15 2015
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In the early 1920s, Jake Witherspoon, a prominent DC attorney, moves his family back to his hometown to help his widowed mother. He also wants to give his family the chance to leave the turmoil of the big city and live a quiet, small-town life in the beauty of rural Arkansas, where living is easy and nothing much happens.
At least that was the plan. But to paraphrase Robert Burns, The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry. Jake is not used to having his plans go astray-or anywhere he has not intended, for that matter.
So when he wakes up one quiet morning in his mother's house in Hulet, Arkansas, and has no idea what has been happening in his own life for the past several years, he's forced to piece together his painful old life and examine the man he was-and the man he wants to be.
Filled with mystery, suspense, and political intrigue, A Defect of Character is the powerful tale of one man's journey from selfishness to self-discovery against a backdrop of deceit and murder in 1920s Arkansas.
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (Loa #26): The Pioneers / The Last of the Mohicans / The Prairie
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hardcover
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback