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| Mr Peanut in a Nutshell |
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| Mr Peanut & Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Mr Peanut & Women |
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| Mr Peanut & Marriages that Go South |
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An extraordinary first novel about marriage, murder and the intensely mysterious human heart.
"It's by Adam Ross. It's coming from Knopf in June, and it's the most riveting look at the dark side of marriage since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And it induced nightmares, at least in this reader. No mean feat."
- Stephen King
"Mr. Peanut is as ingenious as it is riveting." - Richard Russo
When David Pepin first dreamed of killing his wife, he didn't kill her himself. He dreamed of convenient acts of god.
David Pepin has loved his wife since the moment they met, and after thirteen years he still can't imagine living without her-yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she's dead, and he's both deeply distraught and the prime suspect.
The officers investigating her death are intimately familiar with conjugal enigmas. One was happily, complacently married until his wife became inexplicably, voluntarily and militantly bedridden. And Detective Sam Sheppard is especially sensitive to marital guilt, having decades before been convicted and then declared innocent of his wife's brutal murder.
When Pepin is linked to a hitman, the ambiguity enfolding this case begins to resemble the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games he designs for a living. These complex, interlocking dramas brilliantly explore the twinned impulses of love and hate, murder and marriage, each endlessly recycling into the other.
Mesmerizing, hugely poignant, astonishing in its reach, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul and a first novel of the highest order.
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12 languages
Brazil: Companhia das Letras
Canada: HarperCollins
France: 10/18
Germany: Piper Verlag
Holland: Uitgeverij Podium
Israel: Kinneret-Zmora
Italy: Einaudi
Korea: Hyundaemunhak
Poland: Sonia Draga
Romania: Polirom
UK: Cape
US: Alfred A. Knopf
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