{"product_id":"the-mystery-of-right-and-wrong-9780735281653","title":"The Mystery of Right and Wrong","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\"An absolutely unforgettable novel.\"--Ian Williams \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWAYNE 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage Books Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50456215126290,"sku":"9780735281653","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f249fde-34cd-4cc2-b39e-9914a5371222.jpg?v=1729902710","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-mystery-of-right-and-wrong-9780735281653","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}