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He is the author of three short story collections and three novels, including among the missing, which was a 2001 finalist for the national book award. Maybe its a question of scope, or even artistic stamina, but the novel requires a different mindset. Three essentially separate story lines, with morbidly alienated main characters, link up at the end of dan chaons unremittingly dark and. Await your reply by dan chaon 2009, hardcover for sale. A smart, twisting novel of identity and confusion set in various fantastic and creepy landscapes, dan chaons latest book, await your reply, weaves.
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The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways an. Await your reply attains a kind of blurry, bloodstained perfection. The book, with its three interlocking stories, and locales as disparate as las vegas, nebraska, and the arctic, is intensely readable, but as janet maslin of the new york times points out, the real pleasure in reading mr. As the opening severedhand image sets up, this book is instead a kind of horror novel, although there is really nothing supernatural in it.
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