Mapping the Edge
by:
Sarah Dunant (author)
Anna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved daughter at home in London with good friends. When Anna doesn’t return, everyone begins to make excuses, until the likelihood that she might not come back at all...
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Anna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved daughter at home in London with good friends. When Anna doesn’t return, everyone begins to make excuses, until the likelihood that she might not come back at all becomes chillingly clear. In this dazzling work of suspense, Sarah Dunant interweaves parallel narratives that are stretched taut with tension even as they raise difficult questions about love, trust, and accountability. We are challenged, unnerved, and ultimately exhilarated as Dunant redefines the boundaries of the psychological thriller.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375758614 (0375758615)
Publish date: February 12th 2002
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller
This was an interesting book. It is formatted in a unique way, while ingenious and creative, is also distracting and confusing at first. Once you've figured out what Dunant is attempting to achieve with her chapters/options, her writing takes over. That is a good thing. One of Dunant's strongest tal...
Confusing at first, until I read the jacket which explained there were parallel stories (2 stories of Anna, happening at the same time as the third, which is the people at Anna's home.) Once that was figured out, I went through this swiftly. Maybe I'll try more of this author's work.
This exciting thriller left me ill until the end (in a good way). It tells the parallel stories of Anna, a single mother on an impromptu vacation in Italy, and Stella, her best friend. Very quickly, the reader learns that Anna did not return home when she said she would and had not contacted anyone ...
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