Reservation Road

by JohnBurnhamSchwartz (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $4.27

  Ten-year-old Josh is killed, a victim of a hit-and-run. His father Ethan saw it happen; his sister blames herself; his mother cannot come to terms with her loss. As the family disintegrates, someone else is struggling to cope with the tragedy: Dwight, himself a father, with a broken marriage behind him, was the driver in the hit-and-run, rushing to get his own son back home on time after a baseball game. As the two stories unfold, Ethan finally works out that Dwight killed his son and goes to his house in the middle of the night with a gun ...This is a powerful and suspenseful novel - accomplished, spare, and incredibly moving.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.31

  A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz's riveting novel Reservation Road . Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding the unexpected and horrendous death of ten-year-old Josh in a hit and run accident. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college and father of Josh, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, a man at once fleeing his crime and hoping to get caught, wrestles with the overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his own son, Sam. As these two men's lives unravel, Reservation Road moves to its startling conclusion. This is an astonishing tale of love and loss, rage and redemption, that is as suspenseful as it is emotionally compelling.