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Stay Close by Harlan Coben (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100525952276
ISBN-139780525952275
eBay Product ID (ePID)127437176
Product Key Features
Book TitleStay Close
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
TopicThrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / General
GenreFiction
AuthorHarlan Coben
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight23.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-001871
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"When you read a Coben novel you are absorbed by it. His writing draws you into the world he has created and you get to know the characters totally…. [Stay Close] is intense, the characters are interesting, and the writing is magnificent. Coben's talent is in high gear as he takes his readers to the magical world of Atlantic City, a place where dreams either come true or die." -Jackie K. Cooper, The Huffington Post, "The narration hums and dances and sings like nothing [Coben] has done before, and his characters are so real this time around that they almost seem to rise off the printed page." -Bookreporter.com, "[A] masterful stand-alone…. Coben writes with wit and irony, and his flair for exposing the frail balance point between order and chaos in our lives has never been stronger than in this suspenseful outing." Publishers Weekly (starred review), "[Coben] engages readers from the first page. A plot layered with twists, action, and a scandalous history will have his many fans flying through this new offering. Coben devotees have come to expect certain thrills, and they will not be disappointed." - Library Journal, "[A] tour-de-force stand-alone.... [with] some of the most shocking action scenes in current crime fiction." - Booklist , starred review, "When you read a Coben novel you are absorbed by it. His writing draws you into the world he has created and you get to know the characters totally.... [Stay Close] is intense, the characters are interesting, and the writing is magnificent. Coben's talent is in high gear as he takes his readers to the magical world of Atlantic City, a place where dreams either come true or die." -Jackie K. Cooper, The Huffington Post, "[A] masterful stand-alone.... Coben writes with wit and irony" - Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Harlan Coben has long been one of today's top thriller writers, for his gripping, thought-provoking standalones as well as his Myron Bolitar novels. In Stay Close , he masterfully portrays the violent intersection of several lives, overshadowed by past events….Don't missSTAY CLOSE, a stupendous read." --Bookloons.com, "Harlan Coben has long been one of today's top thriller writers, for his gripping, thought-provoking standalones as well as his Myron Bolitar novels. In Stay Close , he masterfully portrays the violent intersection of several lives, overshadowed by past events....Don't missSTAY CLOSE, a stupendous read." --Bookloons.com, "[A] tour-de-force stand-alone…. [with] some of the most shocking action scenes in current crime fiction." Booklist , starred review, Praise for Harlan Coben: "Nobody writes them better than Coben." -Associated Press "Harlan Coben's family thrillers touch us where we live." - The South Florida Sun-Sentinel "Fiction reading doesn't get much better than this." - The Huffington Post on Caught "Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense." - Chicago Sun-Times "Coben has perfected the ability to keep numerous balls in the air, plot threads twisting at once, the readers knowing they will all converge at some point, the suspense lying in just how the author will manage it." - The Daily Beast on Live Wire, "Harlan Coben has long been one of today's top thriller writers, for his gripping, thought-provoking standalones as well as his Myron Bolitar novels. In Stay Close , he masterfully portrays the violent intersection of several lives, overshadowed by past events....Don'tmissSTAY CLOSE, a stupendous read." --Bookloons.com
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisHarlan Coben follows four consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers with a stand-alone thriller in the vein of his beloved breakout novels Caught and Hold Tight . Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she's got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead- end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who can't let go of a cold case-a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man's family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them. Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream- the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades- they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat. With his trademark combination of page-turning thrills and unrivaled insight into the dark shadows that creep into even the happiest communities, Harlan Coben delivers a thriller that cements his status as the master of domestic suspense., Harlan Coben follows four consecutive #1 "New York Times" bestsellers with a stand-alone thriller in the vein of his beloved breakout novels "Caught" and "Hold Tight." Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she's got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead- end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who can't let go of a cold case-a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man's family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them.Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream- the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades- they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat.With his trademark combination of page-turning thrills and unrivaled insight into the dark shadows that creep into even the happiest communities, Harlan Coben delivers a thriller that cements his status as the master of domestic suspense.
LC Classification NumberPS3553.O225S73 2012
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