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Northwest Corner

John Burnham Schwartz

Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, now fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn't revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that he's hidden.

Sam, Dwight's estranged college-age son, has shown up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. In its way, Sam's sense of guilt is as crushing as his father's. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption and love. In turn, they dramatically transform the lives of the women around them: the ex-wives, mothers, and lovers they have turned to in their desperate attempts to somehow rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past.

Told in the resonant voices of everyday people gripped in the emotional riptide of lived life, Northwest Corner is at once tough and heart-lifting, an urgent, powerful story about family bonds that can never be broken and the wayward roads that lead us back to those we love.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 20, 2012
  • Imprint : Corsair
  • Page Extent : 308
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781780338675
  • Price : INR 699
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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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