Brian Deleeuw

The Dismantling (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How much of yourself are you willing to sell?

Brian DeLeeuw hits that sweet spot between literary and commercial suspense with his brilliantly adept, ingeniously plotted novel-a chilling, fast-paced drama that urges readers to question the meaning of atonement and whether revenge might sometimes be the only way we can liberate ourselves from our past.
Twenty-five-year-old med school dropout Simon Worth is an organ broker, buying kidneys and livers from cash-strapped donors and selling them to recipients whose time on the waitlist is running out. When a seemingly straightforward liver transplant has an unexpectedly dangerous outcome, Simon finds himself on the run. In order to survive, he must put aside his better moral judgment and place his trust in a stranger who has a shocking secret.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780698182929
• Artikelnr.: 42975002

Autorenporträt

Brian DeLeeuw is a novelist and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. He is the author of the novels The Dismantling and In This Way I Was Saved, which was long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize, as well as the independent horror film Some Kind of Hate. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MFA in Fiction from The New School.

Rezensionen

A smart novel moves at a brisk pace, and DeLeeuw provides back stories for his characters that make them complex and convincing. Kirkus Reviews

"Powerful." Publishers Weekly

"With its high tension plot and atmosphere of unease, The Dismantling is a morally ambiguous thriller in the grand tradition of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith. It has smart things to say about memory, redemption, and what it's like to live in a world where everything is for sale, but it says them by telling a gripping story." Christopher Beha, author of Arts & Entertainments

Intense, spare, and unflinching, DeLeeuw s The Dismantling treads risky, ethically nuanced territory, exploring the nature of absolution and revenge, the lies we tell our families, and the honesty we can find with strangers. A psychologically insightful, gripping novel. Michaela Carter, author of Further Out Than You Thought

"While this is a fast-paced, engaging thriller, it is also much, much more. It is, at its heart, a fully and tenderly rendered exploration of loss and shame and the deep yearning for some manner of redemption. It is about the difficult choices put before us and that might very well damn us when possible redemption is close at hand." Thomas O Malley, author of This Magnificent Desolation

"A whip-smart modern noir. Brian DeLeeuw's writing is as keenly intelligent as it is eerily propulsive." Jennifer duBois, author of Cartwheel



Praise for Brian DeLeeuw s In this Way I Was Saved:

Elegant, unsettling and wildly original, In This Way I Was Saved reads like a coming-of-age-story with the heart of a nasty thriller." Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

Terrifying and terrifyingly good. Vanity Fair

Haunting and persuasive. Los Angeles Times

Spellbinding. Publishers Weekly

Original, subversive, funny, twisted, and totally engrossing, In This Way I Was Saved is a mind-bending tour de force. I read the last page, flipped back to the beginning, and immediately started again. Chelsea Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Heartsick and Sweetheart

In This Way I Was Saved gave me chills, not only for its dead-on depiction of the searing loneliness of a hermetically sealed mind, but because it is so thrillingly well-executed. A superb first novel Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Blue Plate Special

[W]ill keep you guessing right until the book reaches its inevitable conclusion. I haven't been this entertained by a debut novel in years. Dale Peck, author of Drift House

In this Way I Was Saved is a frightening, gripping tale about a sadistic secret sharer, a shadow self who is ready to devour its host. This is one of the most fascinating and controlled first novels I ve ever read a sustained performance that hypnotizes and terrifies the reader. Edmund White, author of A Boy s Own Story

In this original, inventive debut, Brian DeLeeuw delivers a suspenseful and surprisingly tender psychological thriller that gives shape to the torment of isolation. Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life

A story of friendship and betrayal, violence, madness, lust, and power that will keep you guessing until the very last page and leave you gasping for air. BookPage

Riveting ... suspenseful and terrifying. Library Journal

Mysterious, psychologically, craggy, and highly readable. Time Out New York

Creepily compelling. Daily Mail (UK)

DeLeeuw's precise, vivid prose has that visceral power of both a successful psychological thriller and a gripping ghost story. The Daily Telegraph (UK)