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  • ISBN: 0812980514
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: John Burnham Schwartz
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (July 10, 2012)
  • Pages: 320 pages
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  • Rating: 4.5
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John Burnham Schwartz (born 1965) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Schwartz is best known for his novels Reservation Road (1998) and The Commoner (2008).

John Burnham Schwartz (born 1965) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His fifth novel, Northwest Corner, a sequel to Reservation Road, was published in 2011.

Northwest Corner by Jonathon Burnham Schwartz flows like a river. It reads as langorously as a William Stafford poem and there is even a nod to Stafford in the book. Northwest Corner is a sequel to Reservation Road, taking place twelve years after Reservation Road ends. Dwight is working in a sporting goods store in Santa Barbara and has been seeing a woman, Penny, who knows nothing of his past.

John Burnham Schwartz's NORTHWEST CORNER is simply one of the most moving, page-turning novels I have read in a long time

John Burnham Schwartz's NORTHWEST CORNER is simply one of the most moving, page-turning novels I have read in a long time Читать весь отзыв.

By John Burnham Schwartz Bicycle Days Reservation Road Claire Marvel . Northwest corner : a novel, John Burnham Schwartz. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-679-60511-9.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House. Publishing Group, a division of Random House, In. New York. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Northwest Corner book. From John Burnham Schwartz, one of the our most compelling and compassionate writers, comes a riveting novel about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life’s most difficult and unexpected challenges.

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John Burnham Schwartz’s new novel returns to the broken families of Reservation Road. I can see why Schwartz believed a sequel was justified

John Burnham Schwartz’s new novel returns to the broken families of Reservation Road. I can see why Schwartz believed a sequel was justified. The effects of random violence, grief and loss on the human psyche are endlessly interesting, and there seemed plenty left to explore as the first novel came to a close. You could argue that Dwight’s incarceration was as much a beginning as an ending. This new novel moves us 12 years on. Dwight, having served his prison term, is now working in a sporting goods store in Southern California, attempting to rebuild his life, far from his ex-wife and son. Back on the East Coast, the dead boy’s parents have separated.

From John Burnham Schwartz, one of the our most compelling and compassionate writers, comes a riveting novel about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life’s most difficult and unexpected challenges. Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, at fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on.

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John Burnham Schwartz is a novelist and screenwriter whose bestselling books include Reservation Road, The Commoner, and Northwest Corner

John Burnham Schwartz is a novelist and screenwriter whose bestselling books include Reservation Road, The Commoner, and Northwest Corner. About Topics Video Praise Books Media. About John Burnham Schwartz.

From John Burnham Schwartz, one of the our most compelling and compassionate writers, comes a riveting novel about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life’s most difficult and unexpected challenges. Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, at fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn’t revealed the truth about his past. Then Sam, Dwight’s estranged college-age son, shows up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption in their attempts to rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past.  


Reviews about Northwest Corner: A Novel (7):
Zolorn
In his magnificent book, Reservation Road, John Burnham Schwartz traced the lives of two families, the Arnos and the Learners, affected by tragedy and a subsequent cover-up. It has been 13 years since that book was published, and 12 years have passed in the lives of the Arnos and the Learners.

Dwight Arno has rebuilt his life after a stint in prison, and settled in California, far from the Connecticut neighborhood where he lived when he was married. His existence is rather austere--a job managing a sporting goods store, occasional dating, weekend softball games--but he feels this is the life he deserves to live. Into this placidity drops his son, Sam, whom he hasn't seen in 12 years. Sam, an angry college baseball player, flees to California after an incident that leaves him wondering if the sins of the father are truly visited upon the son. And Sam is searching for something else, from his life and from his father, but he has no clue what those things are. The ripples of Sam's reconnection with Dwight, and Dwight's return to Connecticut, touch Ruth, Sam's mother and Dwight's ex-wife, and others.

I still count Reservation Road among one of my favorite books, so I was somewhat concerned about whether a follow-up novel would be on par, and I hoped that the characters wouldn't have changed too drastically. I'm happy to say that Schwartz did an exceptional job revisiting this story, and while this second book lacks a little of the suspenseful nature of the first, it again inhabits the same type of tension-filled environment. All of the characters are flawed in their own way, and you realize how the damages they suffered years ago have shaped them. If I have any criticism, it's that I felt Sam was just so angry and so resentful that it was difficult to engender a great deal of empathy for him until fairly well into the book. In the end, however, it was terrific to have a new book by John Burnham Schwartz, and even better to be able to revisit a story I loved and feel it was worthy. Read this.
Iaiastta
A magnificent sequel to Reservation Road (Vintage Contemporaries) in which a man, Dwight Arno, accidentally kills a young boy with his car and then drives away from the accident only to be found months later by the boys father. In the sequel Dwight has served his time in jail and and working in a sporting goods store in California, completely estranged from his family in Connecticut. His son, Sam, now a UConn baseball star may be reliving his father's mistake. To protect himself from a brutal assault in a bar he hits his attacker with a baseball bat in the stomach. When that young man ends up in the hospital, with his life, hanging in the balance Sam runs away, like his father did, but this time to his father in California whom he hasn't seen in twelve years. All the pain that can arise from impulsive actions, the difficulties of forgiving or forgetting past sins bitter histories that can't be overcome, and the monumental challenge of getting on with life after a horrible tragedy are all beautifully examined. Schwartz tells the story through multiple perspectives -- Dwight; Sam; Ruth, Sam's mother and Dwight's ex, who is recovering from breast cancer; Emma, the sister of the boy who was killed and who has formed a strange but understandable bond with Sam; and Penny, a poetry professor who was starting to form a relationship with Dwight until his son showed up at his door and she was blindsided by his secrets. The unfolding emotional dynamics make this a real page turner and the writing often lapses into such terrific lyricism that it is poetic. Ironically as much as the book explores isolation, loneliness, burdensome guilt and self loathing it is an uplifting book because the characters are so brutally honest with themselves and each other and that honesty sets the path for their lives to stop being frozen in the amber of the past.
Thordigda
Northwest Corner by Jonathon Burnham Schwartz flows like a river. It has deep eddies, grade four rapids and places where the water is so clear that it's like looking in a mirror; places were a reader can rest and catch their breath. It reads as langorously as a William Stafford poem and there is even a nod to Stafford in the book.

Northwest Corner is a sequel to Reservation Road, taking place twelve years after Reservation Road ends. Dwight is working in a sporting goods store in Santa Barbara and has been seeing a woman, Penny, who knows nothing of his past. His son, Sam, has just been involved in a serious bar fight where he beat someone up with his baseball bat so badly that the other young man may not live. Sam leaves Connecticut and takes the bus to Santa Barbara, appearing on Dwight's doorstep. They have not seen each other in twelve years and the meeting is more than awkward. Sam sees his father's rage inside himself and so he heads there, to be with someone like himself.

Meanwhile, Ruth is struggling with the aftermath of breast cancer treatment. The Lerner household is in disarray. The parents have separated and Emma is in her senior year of college waiting to start at Yale. She and Sam Arno get together and it's like a magical life raft for both of them for each of them understands the trauma and pain of the other's family.

Emma feels like the chosen child is the one who has died and that she is left, the shadow child. Her mother has turned cold and hard. Her father is inaccessible as he studies the Talmud and leaves their home for Chicago to immerse himself in his studies.

We watch as Sam tries to find himself and Emma straddles a line between learning what life is about and becoming part of it herself. Sam wonders if he can ever be anything other than his mistake, if all his life will be this one episode of violence, reliving his father's past.

The book's prose sings. It is like reading an epic poem. The writing is so clear and beautiful that I hated to turn a page. It is by far one of the best books I have ever read, and I have read a lot of books. It is certainly on my top ten of the year.

I didn't think a sequel could ever top the original, but this one does. Its fluidity, beauty and maturity are sublime. It's a book not to miss. I do recommend reading Reservation Road first to familiarize oneself with the characters, but be sure not to stop there. This book calls out to be read.

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