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Man in the Dark (Hardback)
Short Description for Man in the DarkSeventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. This novel celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a brutal world.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 21 August 2008
- Format: Hardback 192 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780571240760 ISBN 10: 0571240763
- Sales rank: 90,983
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Full description for Man in the Dark
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. Brill gradually opens up to his granddaughter, recounting the story of his marriage and confronting the grim reality of Titus' death. "Man in the Dark" is a novel of our time, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night whilst also celebrating the existence of ordinary joys in a brutal world.
