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ISBN10: 0316576379
ISBN13: 9780316576376
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Jul 30 2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780316576376
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Jul 30 2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. One of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2024. From one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who goes for a swim in her apartment complex's swimming pool one morning...and won't come out.
It's November 3, 1957. As Sputnik 2 launches into space, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day. Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn't particularly happy in his job but he fulfills the role. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion with a key shot up her sleeve, is now a mother and homemaker. On this unseasonably warm Sunday, Kathleen decides not to join her family at church. Instead, she unearths her old, red bathing suit and descends into the deserted swimming pool of their apartment complex in Newark, Delaware. And then she won't come out. A riveting, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, The Most masterly breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath.
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