{"product_id":"the-mystery-of-right-and-wrong-isbn-9780735281653","title":"The Mystery of Right and Wrong","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\"An absolutely unforgettable novel.\"—Ian Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterwork from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that grapples with male violence, sexual abuse, and madness. Complusively readable and heartstopping.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John’s, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he en­counters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.\u003cbr\u003e    Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daugh­ters, each in their own way a wounded soul. The old­est, Gloria, has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner dealer husband can lay his hands on. Betha­ny, the most sardonic of the sisters, is fighting a los­ing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Anne Frank \u003c\/i\u003eobsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond—an obsession that has deeper and more dis­turbing roots than Wade could ever have imagined.\u003cbr\u003e    Confronting the central mystery of his character Rachel’s life—and his own—Wayne Johnston has created a brilliant and searing tour de force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to fore­see.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE MYSTERY OF RIGHT AND WRONG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Right and Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e is among the most disturbing books I have ever read. With the intensity of a thriller, the intimacy of a diary, Wayne Johnston maps the warped world that people create for themselves, then force others to live within. It twists history and herstory, fiction and fact, into a dark fairy tale, an epic poem, a case study of pathology, a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. Johnston shows us how hard it is to escape our family’s reach and how easily our coping mechanisms can become prisons of their own. An absolutely unforgettable novel. As morally and formally challenging as Nabokov. I’m still reeling.” \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eIan Williams, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eReproduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Right and Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e is unyieldingly intense, a harrowing portrait of a family mired in madness, dark secrets and the long-term impact of sexual abuse that will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.” —\u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I don't expect to read, this year, anything more disturbing, more powerful, more brave, or more amazingly written than this latest from Wayne Johnston. You have to wonder how he kept this one inside him all this time.” —\u003cb\u003eLinwood Barclay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR WAYNE JOHNSTON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If St. John’s looms large in the Canadian literary psyche, this is due in no small measure to the novels of Wayne Johnston, a native of Newfoundland’s capital city and one of its most diligent chroniclers.” —\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Johnston is] a literary giant who has god-given talent.”\u003ci\u003e —\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wayne Johnston spins wonderful stories; he is a gather-you-round-and-I-will-enchant-you raconteur. He has absorbed the world around him—the tall tales, the history, the epic of a place—and adapted it to a narrative style that is clearly his own. His stories charm and beguile. He writes about the ordinary and extraordinary people of Newfoundland with great empathy and without a shred of sentimentality. At the same time his fiction has a mythic quality: Smallwood walking across the island through drifted snow; a father and son surviving a long trek through winter woods by holding onto a horse and one another; an iceberg with the likeness of the Virgin Mary. Wayne Johnston’s fiction is subtle, his passion understated, his humour underpinned by tragedy. All of his work, superbly written, is a powerful combination of insight, talent and revelation. It is made to endure.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003cb\u003eWriters’ Trust Engel\/Findley Award jury citation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(David Bergen, Joan Clark and Miriam Toews)WAYNE JOHNSTON was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. His bestselling novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Ryans, A World Elsewhere, The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York, Baltimore's Mansion,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams.\u003c\/i\u003e His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Bobby O'Malley\u003c\/i\u003e, won the WH Smith\/Books in Canada First Novel Award. \u003ci\u003eThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1998, was nominated for sixteen national and international awards including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and was a Canada Reads finalist defended by Justin Trudeau. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eJennie's Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir of six life-or-death months of his childhood. He lives in Toronto.","brand":"Vintage Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302517100773,"sku":"NP9780735281653","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780735281653.jpg?v=1767740611","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-mystery-of-right-and-wrong-isbn-9780735281653","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}