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Reservation Road

John Burnham Schwartz

At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live the Learner family - Ethan and Grace their children Josh and Emma - stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner lost in a ten-year-old's private world is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. He is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away.

From this moment forward Reservation Road becomes a harrowing countdown to the confrontation between two very different men. The hit-and-run driver is a small-town lawyer named Dwight Arno a man in desperate need of a second chance. Dwight is also the father of a ten-year-old boy who was asleep in the car the night Josh Learner was killed.

In a gripping narrative woven from the voices of Ethan Dwight and Grace Reservation Road tells the story of two ordinary families facing an extraordinary crisis--a book that reads like a thriller but opens up a world rich with psychological nuance and emotional wisdom. Reservation Road explores the terrain of grief even as it astonishes with unexpected redemption: powerful and wrenching and impossible to put down.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAY 3, 2012
  • Imprint : Corsair
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781780334585
  • Price : INR 575
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John Burnham Schwartz

John Burnham Schwartz is the bestselling author of five novels including Northwest Corner The Commoner and Reservation Road which was made into a film based on his screenplay. His books have been translated into twenty languages and he has done extensive screen and television writing for the major Hollywood studios including as screenwriter of HBO Films' The Wizard of Lies starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer for which he was nominated for a 2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing. Literary Director of the Sun Valley Writers' Conference he lives in Brooklyn with his wife writer Aleksandra Crapanzano and their son Garrick.

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