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Man in the Dark

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Man in the Dark is a brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. It focuses on seventy two year old August Brill, who is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. Brill lies in bed and struggles to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget — his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus. When sleep refuses to come, the retired book critic tells himself stories, imagining a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself, having been thrown into civil war by the 2000 presidential election. As the night progresses, Brill’s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.

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