A Student of Living Things
$47.20
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2007
Summary
The Frayn family of Washington, D.C., is coping pretty well with twenty-first century realities of life—snipers, bomb threats, natural disasters, etc. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig for her umbrella, her politically outspoken brother Steven is shot down right next to her on the library steps.
Steven’s murder shatters the tightly knit Frayn family, and his sister Claire becomes determined to unravel the mystery of why her brother was killed. Searching for answers, Cla…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780452288492 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0452288495 |
| Author: | Susan Richards Shreve |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 140mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
Stylish and sleek and tightly configured. (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of “Independence Day”)
Shreve has captured the post-9⁄11 zeitgeist … part family drama and part psychological thriller, [this novel] is something else as well: an old-fashioned epistolary romance. (The Seattle Times)
Susan Richards Shreve
Susan Richards Shreve is the author of twelve novels and twenty-six children’s books, and has coedited five anthologies. She is a professor at George Mason University and has received grants for her fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Shreve is also a former visiting professor at Princeton and Columbia universities.
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