The Reconstructionist: A Novel
Book Details
Author(s)Nick Arvin
PublisherHarper Perennial
ISBN / ASIN0061995169
ISBN-139780061995163
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,061,419
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2012: You wouldn't think that earning a pair of mechanical engineering degrees would lend itself to fine literature, but Nick Arvin is an exception: His thoughtful, offbeat, original sophomore novel, The Reconstructionist, has a caliber as unexpected as its author's. Antihero Ellis Barstow, whose half brother Christopher died young in a car crash, makes his living by conducting auto accident postmortems. He also loves his boss's wife, who--not coincidentally--was Christopher's high school girlfriend. It sounds complicated, but in the end all these likably flawed people are just trying to answer the same two questions: What happened? And whose fault was it? --Mia Lipman
