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THE VANISHING POINT
At Rye Adler's funeral, they didn't bury his body -- or his rivalry: A gripping literary thriller by the author of the "wrenching and exhilarating" All Things Cease to Appear (Wall Street Journal)
Julian Ladd and Rye Adler cross paths as photography students in the exclusive Brodsky Workshop. When Rye needs a roommate, Julian moves in. Both men are fascinated with their classmate Magda, a talented and beautiful photographer of her Polish neighborhood's street scenes. Rye's nude photograph of Magda cements his reputation as the eye of his generation. Julian puts down his camera, defeated, and their three paths diverge.
After more than a decade photographing the human cost of foreign wars, Rye can't continue to justify holding the rest of humanity at arm's length. When an ex-lover re-enters his life, asking for help only he can give, Rye will enter a broken landscape of the street people and addicts, who were previously unseen, until his search for two missing boys becomes his own desperate fight to survive.
Thirty years after their workshop days, Julian sees Rye's obituary: the paper makes it sound like a suicide. Despite himself, Julian attends the funeral, where there is no casket and no body. This sudden reentry into a world he thought he left behind forces Julian to reckon with his morality and mortality, and question the very foundations of his life. In this eerie and evocative novel, Elizabeth Brundage establishes herself as one of the premiere authors of literary fiction at work today.
Elizabeth Brundage graduated from Hampshire College, attended the NYU film school, was a screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and received an MFA as well as a James Michener Award from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught at a variety of colleges and universities, most recently at Skidmore College, where she was visiting writer-in-residence. She is the author of All Things Cease to Appear, A Stranger Like You, Somebody Else's Daughter, and The Doctor's Wife. She lives near Albany in upstate New York.
After more than a decade photographing the human cost of foreign wars, Rye can't continue to justify holding the rest of humanity at arm's length. When an ex-lover re-enters his life, asking for help only he can give, Rye will enter a broken landscape of the street people and addicts, who were previously unseen, until his search for two missing boys becomes his own desperate fight to survive.
Thirty years after their workshop days, Julian sees Rye's obituary: the paper makes it sound like a suicide. Despite himself, Julian attends the funeral, where there is no casket and no body. This sudden reentry into a world he thought he left behind forces Julian to reckon with his morality and mortality, and question the very foundations of his life. In this eerie and evocative novel, Elizabeth Brundage establishes herself as one of the premiere authors of literary fiction at work today.
Elizabeth Brundage graduated from Hampshire College, attended the NYU film school, was a screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and received an MFA as well as a James Michener Award from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught at a variety of colleges and universities, most recently at Skidmore College, where she was visiting writer-in-residence. She is the author of All Things Cease to Appear, A Stranger Like You, Somebody Else's Daughter, and The Doctor's Wife. She lives near Albany in upstate New York.
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Published 2021-05-18 by Little Brown |