Long Drive Home
A Fiction, Adult, Adult Fiction book. Let me start my review by saying that at some...
A riveting second novel by Will Allison, author of the acclaimed What You Have Left. A happily married suburban father makes a mistake that results in a teenager's death and sends his own life into a devastating tailspin. Written as a confessional letter, the book is a fascinating and moving cautionary tale that explores the moral ambiguities of personal responsibility as it chronicles a father’s desperate attempt to explain himself to his daughter—even though he knows that in doing so, he risks losing her forever.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9781416543039 / 0
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Let me start my review by saying that at some point I will definitely read Will Allison's first novel, and that is a big compliment, at least as far as I am concerned. Long Drive Home is good overall but there are a few tedious sections, in which an already short novel (fewer than 200 pages) could have been shortened even more, but... Glen writes his daughter, Sara, a letter explaining what went wrong in his marriage to Liz and the events that lead up to their divorce. The letter is interspersed with the story of that time period. In a way, Glen is asking his daughter for forgiveness and trying to make thing right when he lies and tries to make her believe that the... This is a YA book without a YA character, unless you count the victim. Told from the point of view of the father, the story begins innocently enough with a drive home with Glen's 6 year old daughter Sara in the back seat. Confronted by a reckless driver, Glen jerks his car in the direction of the seemingly irresponsible kid to scare...
