Andrew, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, returns to
his hometown in upstate New York for his mother''s funeral. He does
not intend to stay in the slow rural backwater he left seventeen
years before. But the dreams and memories persist and in the
darkened farmhouse he relives that hot, bloody night when Eden
Close was blinded - by the same gun that killed her father. The
enigmatic Eden had been Andrew''s childhood companion. Together the
two roamed summer cornfields, smoked their first forbidden
cigarettes, skated, fished and fought until the tomboy turned
temptress - then their friendship ended. Now, despite warnings,
Andrew is drawn again to this lost, blind girl of his youth, drawn
to save her from the cruel neglect she has endured for seventeen
sightless years without him. But first he must discover the grisly
truth about that night...
關於作者:
Formerly a journalist Newsweek, US magazine and non-fiction
writer, Anita Shreve''s first novel EDEN CLOSE, published in 1990,
introduced a distinctively individual voice to literary fiction.
She is the author of ten other novels, all available from Little,
Brown and Abacus.