The beggar's pawn / John L'Heureux.
"The story of a family whose chance meeting with a stranger while dog walking slowly becomes an ominous invasion of their domestic lives. David and Maggie Holliss are an ordinary married couple about to ease into a comfortable, well-earned retirement while tending to three middle-aged children with...
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Language: | English |
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[New York, New York] :
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2020]
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Physical Description: | 259 pages ; 20 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"The story of a family whose chance meeting with a stranger while dog walking slowly becomes an ominous invasion of their domestic lives. David and Maggie Holliss are an ordinary married couple about to ease into a comfortable, well-earned retirement while tending to three middle-aged children with whom they share an edgy relationship of love and resentment. Reginald Parker enters their lives when he saves their dog from being run over by a truck, and when asked how they can possibly thank him, he replies with a request for the loan of two hundred dollars. They lend it to him, gladly, and thus begins what will become for them and their family a nightmare that moves from comic resignation to stark tragedy."--Provided by publisher. |
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Call Number: | PS3562.H4 B44 2020 |
ISBN: | 9780143135234 0143135236 |