Dismantled : a novel
When a subversive group of college art majors spend the summer in a remote cabin, a particularly twisted experiment ends in the death of one of the group. Nine years later, survivors Henry and Tess are living an hour's drive from the old cabin when a victim of their past pranks commits suicide, setting off a chain of events that threatens to engulf the couple and their nine-year-old daughter, Emma.
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- ISBN: 0061689335
- ISBN: 9780061689338
- Physical Description 422 pages
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : HarperCollins, [2009]
- Copyright ©2009
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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 32.99 |
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Dismantled : A Novel
"An eerie and gripping tale of suspense....A triumph." --Boston Globe A stunning and chilling thriller from the author of the New York Times bestseller Island of Lost Girls that further burnishes her reputation as "One of the brightest new stars of literary suspense" (Los Angeles Times online). When Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz form the Compassionate Dismantlers in college, the first rule of their manifesto is, "To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart." But their penchant for acts of meaningful vandalism and elaborate, often dangerous pranks results in Suz's death in the woods of Vermont--a tragedy the surviving Dismantlers decide to cover up. Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are desperate to forget, but their guilt isn't ready to let them go. When a mysterious Dismantler-style postcard drives a past prank victim to suicide, it sets off a chain of terrifying events that threatens to tear apart their world and engulf their inquisitive nine-year-old daughter, Emma. Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Or is it possible Suz has found a way to enact revenge? Full of white-knuckle tension with deeply human characters caught in circumstances beyond their control, Jennifer McMahon's enthralling story proves that she is a master at weaving the fear of the supernatural with the stark realities of life.