After: A Novel

ISBN: 0312424760

Author: Tristram, Claire

Condition: New

About the Author Claire Tristram writes frequently about politics, culture, and science. She has written for The New York Times, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, and Salon. She is the author of the novel After. Product Description After is the story of an intense affair that takes place over a day and a night. It has been a year since the woman's husband was murdered by Islamic extremists. Now she decides to take a lover, a Muslim man. Telling their story from both points of view, Claire Tristram describes their passion and their tenderness, their shifting desires and hesitations, and the unexpected escalation of their lovemaking into terrifying violence. Review After is as disturbing, challenging, and subversive a debut novel as I have read in many years. Here's a very cunning, fearless writer, full of promise and surprise. -Jim CraceAn intriguingly risky premise [and] an exploration of the ways in which lovers objectify one another, then turn tender in the most confusing circumstances...An appealing Mamet-like mystery. -The New York Times Book ReviewSomewhere, in another language, there exists a word to express the fog surrounding survivors. The word would have to convey the sense of damage and disbelief when, despite death, people continue to talk on the phone, eat, and drive their cars to work. Claire Tristram's new novel, After, inhabits the syllables of this word. -Village Voice Literary SupplementA balanced, taut narrative...truly chilling suspense. -Entertainment WeeklyWhat emerges are questions of identity and what we think ourselves capable of. What we're left with is the notion that grief and hate can overtake us, no matter who we think we are. -USA Today