Undone

by JohnColapinto (Author), John Colapinto (Author)

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Paperback
2017
$17.73

Jasper Ulrickson, beloved memoirist and crime novelist, is a good and decent man-devoted husband to his paralysed wife and loving father to their four-year-old child. Despite their challenges, the Ulricksons are happy. Then Jasper learns of the daughter he fathered eighteen years earlier, a beautiful young woman named Chloe, whose mother recently passed away. She needs her father and so Jasper welcomes her into his family and their home. Celibacy, sexual denial and marital fidelity are the traits for which Jasper has been celebrated by fans the world over. But he now learns-to his horror-that these traits have never been truly tested. That a man could feel such unnatural, horrible urges is unthinkable to Jasper. But then, Jasper does not know all of Chloe's story...A risk-taking, controversial and courageous novel, Undone is an unforgettable thriller-cum-satire which will be relished by fans of Michel Houellebecq, John Niven and Patricia Highsmith.

Synopsis

Jasper Ulrickson, beloved memoirist and crime novelist, is a good and decent man-devoted husband to his paralysed wife and loving father to their four-year-old child. Despite their challenges, the Ulricksons are happy. Then Jasper learns of the daughter he fathered eighteen years earlier, a beautiful young woman named Chloe, whose mother recently passed away. She needs her father and so Jasper welcomes her into his family and their home. Celibacy, sexual denial and marital fidelity are the traits for which Jasper has been celebrated by fans the world over. But he now learns-to his horror-that these traits have never been truly tested. That a man could feel such unnatural, horrible urges is unthinkable to Jasper. But then, Jasper does not know all of Chloe's story...A risk-taking, controversial and courageous novel, Undone is an unforgettable thriller-cum-satire which will be relished by fans of Michel Houellebecq, John Niven and Patricia Highsmith.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 404
Publisher: Silvertail Books
Published: 04 May 2017
ISBN 10: 1909269654
ISBN 13: 9781909269651

Author Bio

John Colapinto is an award-winning journalist, author, and staff writer at The New Yorker, where he has written about subjects as diverse as medicinal leeches, Sotheby's auctioneer Tobias Meyer, fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld and Rick Owens, and Paul McCartney. Prior to this, he wrote for Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine, and he was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. His nonfiction book, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, was a New York Times bestseller and his debut novel, About The Author, was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He lives in New York City.