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The
2005 Award
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Shipwreck
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| John
North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions
about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and bottles of whiskey
consumed in a mysterious café called L'Entre Deux Mondes, he recounts,
in counterpoint to his doubts, the one story he has never told before, perhaps
the only important one he will ever tell. North's chosen interlocutor-who
could be his doppelgänger-is transfixed by the revelations and becomes
the narrator of North's tale.
North
has always been faithful to his wife, Lydia, but when one of his novels
achieves a special success, he allows himself a dalliance with Léa,
a star struck young journalist. Coolly planning to make sure that his
life with Lydia will not be disturbed, North is taken off guard when Léa
becomes obsessed with him and he with her elaborate erotic games. As the
hypnotic and serpentine confession unfurls, we gradually discover the
extraordinary lengths to which North has gone to indulge a powerful desire
for self-destruction. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Louis
Begley lives in New York City. His previous novels are Schmidt
Delivered, Wartime Lies, The Man Who Was Late, As
Max Saw It, About Schmidt, and Mistler's Exit. |
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