In the Lake of the Woods (Signed)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1994.
First Edition. Hardcover.
A masterly novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Going After Cacciato. What happens when the secret you've hidden from everyone, even yourself, breaks out? This question lies at the center of O'Brien's novel about a rising politician whose wife's disappearance forces his secret out in the open.
On a lake deep in Minnesota's north woods, John and Kathy Wade are trying to reassemble their lives. John, a rising political star, has just suffered a devastating electoral defeat. Kathy attempts to comfort her husband, but soon it becomes apparent that something is horribly wrong between them, that they have hidden too much from each other. Then one day Kathy vanishes. Their boat is gone - did she drown or is she lost? Or did she flee, disappearing into a new life? As a massive search gets under way, the possibilities multiply in terrifying directions. Uncovering the truth requires an investigation of Wade's life, and gradually we come to see that he is a sorcerer lost inside his own magic, a Houdini capable of escaping everything but the chains of his darkest secret.
Item #900812ISBN: 0395488893
Octavo, 1/4 green cloth, light blue paper over boards, 306pp.
Fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $35.00