num_pages: 320
description: One writers mysterious death anothers relentless quest for fame and a bitter literary critics passion for manipulation drive the story of this haunting novel set in a small upstate New York college town in the 1990s.Catherine Strayed wonders if shell ever know the truth about the death of her husband a promising writer who died under circumstances that could have been accidental or a suicide or perhaps even murder. But after his death instead of leaving the secluded college town to which he had brought her she simply tries to go on with her life there. When her former mentor who had also briefly been her lovera powerful critic who singlehandedly destroyed her husbands chance for successtakes a teaching job at the college Catherines world threatens to collapse. For with him has come his latest protg an exotic young woman named Antonia Lively who has written a novel that has become a literary sensation. She insinuates herself into Catherines life and mysterious and frightening things start to happen as unbeknownst to Catherine the younger woman sets out to steal the truth of her life and the death of her husband so that she can plunder them for her next literary triumph.Levinsons richly crafted characters and his tautly drawn plot mark the debut of an exciting young talent.
language: English
title: Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence
publisher: Algonquin Books