At the age of eighteen, a young man is convicted for the murder of a woman during a robbery and sent to a high security prison. Twenty-five years later, he is finally set free, a changed man painfully entering a changed world. He emerges into a society that has grown unfamiliar and corrupt, his many years inside prison leaving him unprepared for the world beyond the gates. Unsure of the new rules of society, he is subject to the hidden motivations of those around him, the plans that his friends and family may or may not have for him. This is a darkly compelling story of how one man struggles to mend the gap that his crime and incarceration have torn in his life, coming to grips with the hole gouged in his personal universe.
After 25 years in prison for a shocking murder during his youth, Gordon Loumis returns to his deteriorated boyhood neighborhood to try to resume his life. Mistrustful of his own capacities, Gordon feels his way through charged relationships with a younger brother who is dealing with his own failings, an unloved neighborhood child, and a boisterous woman who yearns for intimacy. In creating these quirky characters, Culp sometimes inadvertently puts one in mind of "The Simpsons," rather than a novel. But the precariousness of Gordon's situation focuses listener attention, surmounting Culp's occasional excesses. M.O. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Mary McGarry Morris is the author of VANISHED, nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; A DANGEROUS WOMAN, chosen by TIME magazine as one the "Five Best Novels of the Year" and made into a major motion picture; and SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME, an Oprah Book Club selection and a CBS television movie; and FIONA RANGE. She lives in Massachusetts.
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