The Double Bind
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3.5
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Chris Bohjalian
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence. When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret–a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written an extraordinary novel.Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!
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Author
Chris Bohjalian
Pages
416
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2008-02-12
ISBN
0307389413 9780307389411
Ratings
Google: 3
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"I must admit that I am acting a bit like Laurel in this book, by being consumed about re-reading the last chapter again......I have Googled it and tried to find more conversation on it but to no avail.....OMG.....the ending blew me away....freaked me out....caught my breath! I think I am an intelligent woman and above average reader...but I simply did not figure out the ending and now I want to go back and re-read the book again to see how it will differ from the first reading. I loved how the characters from 'The Great Gatsby' were involved/intertwined into this book....this was such a great story and now has become an obssession of mine to read that last chapter again....."