The fall guy : a novel /

It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth char...

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Main Author: Lasdun, James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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