Mapping the Edge: A Novel

Sarah Dunant's Mapping the Edge explores the best of two worlds, offering r eaders a suspenseful, eerie plot and a delicately nuanced exploration of th e kinds of prickly, challenging ideas that, sadly, usually lie outside the province of the traditional thriller. When Anna decides to take an impromptu trip to Italy, she packs her bag, le aves her 6-year-old daughter, Lily, at home with close friends, and steps o nto the plane. She's always been a woman of action, and her personal and pr ofessional lives have been filled to overflowing recently. So her friends P aul and Estella think nothing of the jaunt--it's a well-deserved break, a w eekend for psychic refreshment, a brief step outside reality. But a disappearance When Anna fails to return, Paul and Estella make excuses, to themselves and to Lily. When the weekend stretches toward a week, the possibility of her permanent absence becomes hauntingly real. Dunant takes that absence and weaves together a pair of possible "explanations," playing out alternating scenarios of seduction (Anna in the throes of a disturbingly passionate, illicit affair) and abduction (Anna in the grasp of a stranger whose cordiality turns gradually to madness).

Product Info

ISBN: 0375758615

ISBN-13: 9780375758614

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback

Year: 2002

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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