{"product_id":"trial-by-darkness-charles-gorham-9781962896214","title":"Trial by Darkness","description":"\"This is a brilliant book written by a brilliant man who has no fear expressing his ideas.\" \u003ci\u003eBirmingham News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the driving, compassionate story of a young man's coming of age, a well-born rebel who defies his family's two hundred years of aristocratic tradition...and flees the horrors that churn beneath its tranquil surface. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAvery Hollister grew up admiring his father, loving his gentle mother too much, and believing in the aristocratic Hollister tradition. And then he sees his family as it really is. His father, a faithless bully, is anxious to preserve appearances at any cost, while his mother, suffering from lack of love, is slowly losing her mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo Avery makes a bitter break. He leaves the great New England mansion whose hidden tragedies threatened to ensnare him, and escapes to Manhattan, where he rooms with the son of an immigrant family and falls in love with an enchanting Greenwich Village woman... and through the pain and ecstasy, tears and laughter, begins to discover a whole new life that's unshackled from the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Written with passionate conviction. Gorham is rapidly developing into a major American novelist.\" \u003ci\u003eIndianapolis Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It is real and earnest without being woundingly ugly. Often you'll feel that you're reading a mid-century F. Scott Fitzgerald and that is only one of this book's pleasant virtues.\" \u003ci\u003eCourier-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A penetrating novel,\" \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gorham has matured into a really important novelist. This book convinces me that, except for John P. Marquand, there is not a single master of fiction writing today who knows as much or writes as well about New England families.\"\u003ci\u003e Knoxville Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gorham's novel is an ambitious one, containing some excellent writing.\" \u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An excellent example of the coming-of-age novel. Gorham writes with wit tempered by compassion.\" \u003ci\u003eGreensboro News \u0026amp; Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Gorham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1962896218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781962896214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cutting Edge Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.14d","brand":"Charles Gorham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47474310283519,"sku":"9781962896214","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23a9534e-0a49-4947-aaa2-d63edfd4b981.jpg?v=1762316056","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trial-by-darkness-charles-gorham-9781962896214","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}