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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Reservoir 13

Reservoir 13

McGregor, Jon

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Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1936787709
ISBN13: 9781936787708
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Oct 3 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

A fiercely intelligent . . . daring, and very moving about an English village haunted by one family's loss--for readers of The Virgin Suicides and Zadie Smith's NW (George Saunders, The Paris Review Daily)

Jon McGregor has revolutionized that most hallowed of mystery plots: the one where some foul deed takes place in a tranquil English village that . . . doesn't feel so tranquil anymore. --The Wall Street Journal

Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed.

As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths; secrets kept and exposed; livelihoods made and lost; small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside.

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