NATIONAL BESTSELLER тАв┬а A тАЬcompellingтАЭ (Los Angeles Times) novel of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everydayтАФfrom тАЬa literary original who is perfecting a genre of his ownтАЭ (The Wall Street Journal)
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тАЬRich and complex . . . with fully fleshed characters, a fast-paced plot, thematic sophistication, and narrative cunning.тАЭтАФThe Boston Globe
тАЬSix days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin.тАЭ
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So begins Peter AaronтАЩs story about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to SachтАЩs death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve itтАФbefore those who are investigating the case invent an account of their own.
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Leviathan is a daring and immensely moving story by an author whom The Times Literary Supplement has called тАЬone of AmericaтАЩs most spectacularly inventive writers.тАЭ