Dimensions
131 x 196 x 10mm
A love triangle in 1930s Illinois is the focus of this luminous American classic, a short novel that yet encompasses humanity, wit, insight and psychological suspense.
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealousy leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parents' misery - is shattered. After the murder and the upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator's words left unsaid result in this novella, a devastating reconstruction of the events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret.
