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Name: In the Lake of the Woods

Author: Tim O'Brien
Year: 1994
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Popularity: 4.2
Genres/categories: Mystery, Award winners, War/Military

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ISBN:
9780785786832
9781585479948
078578683X
1585479942
Winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize in 1995.

From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
What happens to a marriage when the darkest secrets of your past find their way into the present?

On a lake deep in Minnesota's north woods, John and Kathy Wade are trying to reassemble their lives. John, a rising political star, has just suffered a devastating electoral defeat. Kathy attempts to comfort her husband, but soon it becomes apparent that something is horribly wrong between them, that they have hidden too much from each other. Then one day Kathy vanishes. Their boat is gone - did she drown or is she lost? Or did she flee, disappearing into a new life? As a massive search gets under way, the possibilities multiply in terrifying directions. Uncovering the truth requires an investigation of Wade's life, and gradually we come to see that he is a sorcerer lost inside his own magic, a Houdini capable of escaping everything but the chains of his darkest secret.


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