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Middle-aged and short on prospects, Charles Wilson returns to Trempes, the village of his childhood, and discovers the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where they played as boys. Thus begins Wilson's obsessive quest to exhume the secrets of his past and to understand the reasons for his friend's death. But memories shift, people change and things are never as they seem. Soon Wilson finds himself caught up in a delusory spiral that threatens his very existence. This is at once a neo-Gothic metaphysical thriller and a meticulous meditation on the unapologetic betrayal of memory and imagination. Wilson's story bubbles up from the faults between mystery and fairy tale, brimming with characters haunted and tortured by the past, where truth and deception are wound up in time like the gnarled branches of old, grizzled trees.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: River of Dead Trees
• Author: Andree A. Michaud
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781552451748
• ISBN: 9781552451748
• ID: 06571512
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Weight: 326 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 133 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. October 2002

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