"Eerily beautiful . . . Chaon] is the modern day John Cheever."--"Boston Sunday Globe "
"Powerful and disturbing . . . The shocks in this collection are many."--"The Washington Pos""t"
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These haunting, suspenseful stories by acclaimed author Dan Chaon feature scattered families, unful[...]
""Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale."" Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious--during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred ye[...]
Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other's thoughts, but they couldn't be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes his parents pr[...]