Dr Paul Allen is a highly respected rheumatologist living in a comfortable suburb with his second wife and their two young boys. And then one evening America is rocked by the shooting of a charismatic Presidential candidate and the young man arrested for the crime is Danny, the child of Allen's first marriage - news which sends the family down a harrowing path of no return. Almost overwhelmed by a vortex of feelings - guilt, anger, incredulity, love - Allen embarks on a mission to understand what happened and why. Even if he is the only man in the world who believes in Danny's innocence, he is determined to prove it. At the same time, he is forced to look back at the past, and Danny's childhood. Following the trail of his son's fatal last journey across America, Allen's quest is both a suspenseful drama and a searing meditation on conspiracy theory, gun culture, marriage and parenthood.
'Brilliant and heartbreaking, The Good Father is a thriller, a mystery and above all else a savagely contemporary, hugely important story ... it will haunt the reader for a long time.' -- Tony Parsons 'Riveting, moving, unique. This novel deserves to become a classic.' -- Sophie Hannah 'An unblinking look at the ills of modern America, and a conclusion: love might address them in a way that wealth cannot.' -- Justin Webb, presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 'With great skill, Hawley renders Dr. Allen's treacherous emotional geography, from his shock and guilt to his growing sense tha the knows far less about his son than he thought ...' -- Publisher's Weekly 'A gripping and poignant novel that chimes with We Need to Talk About Kevin and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. The Good Father is a clever dissection of American gun culture, and what it means to love and trust someone. The perfect reading group book.' -- Patrick Neale in the Bookseller 'Ostensibly a crime thriller, in American screenwriter Noah Hawley's hands it plays out more as a meditation on fatherhood with a subplot that brilliantly subverts the romance of the American road trip ... sure to be a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic.' -- Huffington Post UK
Title: The Good Father
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Noah Hawley
ISBN 13: 9781444730371
ISBN 10: 1444730371
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publication Date: 27/03/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
813.54
(DC21)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Height: 234mm
Width: 157mm
Thickness: 25mm
Weight: 430g