false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256001159m/4811067.jpg 4811067 1 A mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence In the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.” So begins, innocuously enough, J. Robert Lennon’s gripping, spooky, and brilliant new novel. Unforthcoming, formal, and more than a little defensive in his encounters with curious locals, Eric Loesch starts renovating a run-down house in the small, upstate New York town of his childhood. When he inspects the title to the property, however, he discovers a chunk of land in the middle of his woods that he does not own. What’s more, the name of the owner is blacked out. Loesch sets out to explore the forbidding and almost impenetrable forest—lifeless, it seems, but for a bewitching white deer—that is the site of an eighteenth-century Indian massacre. But this peculiar adventure story has much to do with America’s current military misadventures—and Loesch’s secrets come to mirror the American psyche in a paranoid age. The answer to what—and who—might lie at the heart of Loesch’s property stands at the center of this daring and riveting novel from the author whose writing, according to Ann Patchett, “contains enough electricity to light up the country.”” 4876191 31 3 2009 Castle: A Novel total:128|5:1|4:4|3:4|2:2|1:1| 128 396 347 53 3 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:01:13 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:02:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 21:14:16 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 21:24:48 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 23:02:43 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 23:03:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false true Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 19:09:01 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 19:36:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 22:06:09 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 18:59:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 30 11:26:28 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 11:26:28 -0700 2009 Castle that has literary aspirations, critics invariably judge a book's ability to suspend a reader's disbelief. And why not? While not flawless -- the author's plotting and a creaky backstory sometimes get in the way of a compelling char...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 08:47:10 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 12:43:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 10:42:38 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 14:50:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:10:12 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:12:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 15:12:46 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 14:12:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 08:00:58 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 09:40:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 13:14:04 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 10:10:03 -0800 2008
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