A stunning psychological literary thriller from 'a master of the dark arts' (Kelly Link)
J. Robert Lennon is the author of eight novels. His fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, Granta, Harper's Magazine, the New Yorker and the LRB. He lives in upstate New York.
Compelling from the first page, and then smart, sophisticated,
suspenseful and satisfying throughout -- Broken River is a
first-class ride.
*Lee Child*
J. Robert Lennon is a connoisseur of calamity, qualms and paradox,
all of which are on profuse display in his crafty, seductive eighth
novel, Broken River... Broken River is a remarkable performance, a
magic trick that makes you laugh at its audacity. Lennon has
written a realistic novel with vivid characters and flashes of
humour and an evocative mood... when you close a novel as good as
Broken River, something, not quite a ghost, may follow you.
*New York Times*
A cracker of a novel - sharp, dark and suspenseful
*Mail on Sunday*
What prevents Broken River from being classified as simply a horror
or crime story are Lennon's linguistic energy and dark humour ...
it's a rare book that manages to bend genres so successfully - that
thrills and frightens while evoking such insight into human
failings and the lure of the past
*Financial Times*
Fizzing with line-by-line propulsion and wickedly plotted with
slow-burn complexity, this is a knockout, unmissable performance
from a writer at the very top of his game.
*Observer*
Broken River is like a Coen brothers movie set in rural New
England... Lennon has a lot of fun... and we do, too.
*Sunday Times*
A writer with enough electricity to light up the country.
*Ann Patchett*
Hypnotic and unsettling, Broken River weaves a dark, compelling
spell
*Mick Herron, author of Real Tigers*
Lennon's prose has a languorous, lingering quality with shifts of
perspective and tonal jolts that make you concentrate all the
harder. I might venture that Broken River ought to be on prize
longlists, but as with the house, nothing is certain... There is a
ghastly creepiness to all this, magnified by the cat-like elegance
of the prose... Two thirds of the way through this novel, I
fantasised about an epic Mexican shootout where Wes Anderson, Guy
Maddin, Sofia Coppola, David Lynch and Kevin Smith argued about who
should get the film rights. At the same time, I realised it is
impossible to film. So much happens inside the characters: so much
is presented as hypothetical. This is an astonishing, nasty,
brilliant, upsetting work.
*Guardian*
J Robert Lennon's tautly constructed blend of literary fiction and
thriller is a compelling cocktail, right down to its explosive and
shocking ending
*Daily Mail*
A tense, surprising thriller, with perverse overtones of the Coen
brothers variety
*New York Times*
Broken River is a novel with multiple identities: it's a ghost
story, a crime story, a coming-of-age story, a story about love and
family and fiction itself. What is astonishing is how well all
these elements work together, how they intertwine as seamlessly as
the fates of Lennon's characters. As good as fiction gets.
*Ben Winters*
An intimate portrait of the violence we do to each other, about
family and art and the scars of unspeakable acts. Broken River
blisters and rips and ultimately soars. I loved it.
*Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls and Broken Monsters*
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