The Testing of Luther Albright Paperback - 2006
by MacKenzie Bezos
When an earthquake shakes Luther Albright's Sacramento home, it reveals fault lines and cracks not only in the house he personally designed but in the facade of his family as well. "A sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart."--Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.
First line
THE YEAR I LOST MY WIFE AND SON, MY SON PERFORMED NINE separate tests of my character.
From the rear cover
Luther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions.
But when an earthquake shakes his Sacramento home, the world Luther has constructed with such care begins to tilt: his son's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre and threatening, his loving wife seems to grow distant, the house he built with his own hands shows its first signs of decay, and a dam of his design comes under investigation for structural flaws exposed by the tremors. Nightmarish connections begin to whisper at Luther from the most innocent of places as debut novelist MacKenzie Bezos tightens her net of psychological suspense around the reader with bravura skill. This is a harrowing portrait of an ordinary man who finds himself tested and strives not to be found wanting.
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- Title The Testing of Luther Albright
- Author MacKenzie Bezos
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-07-25
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780060751425 / 0060751428
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.46 x 0.69 in (20.22 x 13.87 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Family, Civil engineers
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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