The Tenth Circle
Dustin Weaver New York: Atria Books, 2006. 6th Printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 385, [5] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads Judy--Happy Reading! Jodi Picoult. Jodi Lynn Picoult (born May 19, 1966) is an American writer. Picoult has published 27 novels, accompanying short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterized as family saga. She frequently centers storylines around a moral dilemma or a procedural drama which pits family members against one another. Although she is often characterized as an author of chick-lit, over her career, Picoult has covered a wide range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, and school shootings. She has been described as, "a paradox, a hugely popular, at times controversial writer, ignored by academia, who questions notions of what constitutes literature simply by doing what she does best." From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime, or if your mistakes are carried forever. Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also a straight-A high school student, pretty and popular, and the light of her father's life.... Comic book artist Daniel Stone would do anything to protect his daughter. But when a single act of violence shatters her innocence, seemingly mild-mannered Daniel's convictions are put to the test, while his own shockingly tumultuous past, hidden even from his family, comes to light. Now, everything Trixie's ever believed about her hero, her father, seems to be a lie as Daniel ventures to hell and back, seeking revenge. Will the price be the bond they share? Revealing an exceptional, unflinching, and utterly chilling portrait of today's youth culture, Jodi Picoult pulls readers inside a shattered family facing the toughest questions of morality and forgiveness. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Some of Picoult's best storytelling distinguishes her twisting, metaphor-rich 13th novel about parental vigilance gone haywire, inner demons and the emotional risks of relationships. Comic book artist Daniel Stone is like the character in his graphic novel with the same title as this book—once a violent youth and the only white boy in an Alaskan Inuit village, now a loving, stay-at-home dad in Bethel, Maine—traveling figuratively through Dante's circles of hell to save his 14-year-old teenage daughter, Trixie. After she accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape, Trixie—and Daniel, whose fierce father-love morphs to murderous rage toward her assailant—unravel in the aftermath of the allegation. At the same time, wife and mother Laura, a Dante scholar, tries to mend her and Daniel's marriage after ending her affair with one of her students. Picoult has collaborated with graphic artist Dustin Weaver to illustrate her deft, complex exploration of Daniel and his beast within. Laura and Daniel follow their runaway daughter to Alaska, at which point Picoult drives the story with the Dante metaphor. This story of a flawed family on the brink of destruction grips from start to finish. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Rape, Comic Book, Artist, Daniel Stone, Fathers, Daughters, Violence, Innocence, Trixie Stone, Revenge, Family Relationships, Morality, Forgiveness, Alaska, Inuit Village, Rage, Assailant, Allegation, Affair, Infidelity, Marriage, Dysfunctional Famil
ISBN: 9780743496704
[Book #84172]
Price: $100.00