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Obedience: A Novel by Lavender
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Used book in good condition. Shows typical wear. Quick shipping. Satisfaction guaranteed!”
- Narrative Type
- Contemporary
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- Book
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- ISBN
- 9780307396105
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown/Archetype
ISBN-10
030739610X
ISBN-13
9780307396105
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038275038
Product Key Features
Book Title
Obedience
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Thrillers / General, Mystery & Detective / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-015005
Reviews
"In his dream-like and labyrinthine debut, Will Lavender delivers a clever, intricate page-turner that kept me guessing late into the night. "Obedience "is a house of mirrors where every corner we turn is a false reflection of the truth until the shocking final scene. A gripping exploration of human nature and all its foibles told in Lavender's fresh and original voice, "Obedience" is not to be missed." --Lisa Unger "A taut and timely thriller that explores the dark side of academia, where classrooms are dangerous and paranoia abounds." --Karin Slaughter "A taut, clever puzzle, so artfully crafted and tightly wound that it springs open its trap when you least expect it to." --Carol Goodman, author of" The Sonnet Lover "and "The Ghost Orchid" " ""A devilishly inventive debut that reads like a house of mirrors. Nothing is what it seems, right up to the devastating finale."" "--Brian Freeman, author of "Stripped"" ", "A taut and timely thriller that explores the dark side of academia, where classrooms are dangerous and paranoia abounds." --Karin Slaughter "A taut, clever puzzle, so artfully crafted and tightly wound that it springs open its trap when you least expect it to." --Carol Goodman, author of" The Sonnet Lover "and "The Ghost Orchid" " ""A devilishly inventive debut that reads like a house of mirrors. Nothing is what it seems, right up to the devastating finale."" "--Brian Freeman, author of "Stripped"" ", ""Obedience" draws you in and never lets go -- and what a ride!" --David Baldacci "In his dream-like and labyrinthine debut, Will Lavender delivers a clever, intricate page-turner that kept me guessing late into the night. "Obedience "is a house of mirrors where every corner we turn is a false reflection of the truth until the shocking final scene. A gripping exploration of human nature and all its foibles told in Lavender's fresh and original voice, "Obedience" is not to be missed." --Lisa Unger "Obedience is a very scary story set on the border where good meets evil, located in this case in that scariest of places, academia. Taut, twisty, and highly original: the pages turned themselves." --Peter Abrahams "A taut and timely thriller that explores the dark side of academia, where classrooms are dangerous and paranoia abounds." --Karin Slaughter "A taut, clever puzzle, so artfully crafted and tightly wound that it springs open its trap when you least expect it to." --Carol Goodman, author of" The Sonnet Lover "and "The Ghost Orchid"" ""A devilishly inventive debut that reads like a house of mirrors. Nothing is what it seems, right up to the devastating finale."" "--Brian Freeman, author of "Stripped ""Kentucky resident and writing teacher Lavender plumbs his vocation for material and gets his hooks in deep with this arresting debut set on a generic Midwestern campus. On the first day of Logic and Reasoning 204, sphinx-like Professor Williams assigns his students the most sinister of logic problems. "There's been a murder," he tells them. "A "hypothetical," A potential murder"-or so he claims. Their homework is to prevent the killing, insix weeks, of an invented victim called Polly by correlating the slim leads, facts and photographs provided piecemeal by Williams. Our reluctant detectives are a trio of students, superficially drawn but effective in propelling the narrative forward. Hot-tempered Brian House is given to violent rages after receiving the assignment. Dennis Flaherty, an arrogant frat boy on the surface, is treading emotional water in a clandestine affair with the dean's wife. Inquisitive but prone to crushes, Mary Butler hides her unrequited affection for Dennis by burying her nose in books. The three soon discover secrets behind Williams's assignment. As the multifaceted deception begins to unravel, real danger comes to light. Mary is threatened by the professor's assistant. A police detective recalls the disappearance of an actual young woman whose plight was disturbingly similar to Polly's. At a party at Williams's house, Mary is handed a note that warns, ""None of this is real,"" With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation. An inspired thriller about cognitive dissonance, conjectural misdirection and the conspicuous dichotomy between academia and the real world." --"Kirkus Reviews", "Obediencedraws you in and never lets go - and what a ride!" -David Baldacci "In his dream-like and labyrinthine debut, Will Lavender delivers a clever, intricate page-turner that kept me guessing late into the night.Obedienceis a house of mirrors where every corner we turn is a false reflection of the truth until the shocking final scene. A gripping exploration of human nature and all its foibles told in Lavender's fresh and original voice,Obedienceis not to be missed." -Lisa Unger "Obedience is a very scary story set on the border where good meets evil, located in this case in that scariest of places, academia. Taut, twisty, and highly original: the pages turned themselves." -Peter Abrahams "A taut and timely thriller that explores the dark side of academia, where classrooms are dangerous and paranoia abounds." -Karin Slaughter "A taut, clever puzzle, so artfully crafted and tightly wound that it springs open its trap when you least expect it to." -Carol Goodman, author ofThe Sonnet LoverandThe Ghost Orchid "A devilishly inventive debut that reads like a house of mirrors. Nothing is what it seems, right up to the devastating finale." -Brian Freeman, author ofStripped "Kentucky resident and writing teacher Lavender plumbs his vocation for material and gets his hooks in deep with this arresting debut set on a generic Midwestern campus. On the first day of Logic and Reasoning 204, sphinx-like Professor Williams assigns his students the most sinister of logic problems. "There's been a murder," he tells them. "Ahypothetical. A potential murder"or so he claims. Their homework is to prevent the killing, in six weeks, of an invented victim called Polly by correlating the slim leads, facts and photographs provided piecemeal by Williams. Our reluctant detectives are a trio of students, superficially drawn but effective in propelling the narrative forward. Hot-tempered Brian House is given to violent rages after receiving the assignment. Dennis Flaherty, an arrogant frat boy on the surface, is treading emotional water in a clandestine affair with the dean's wife. Inquisitive but prone to crushes, Mary Butler hides her unrequited affection for Dennis by burying her nose in books. The three soon discover secrets behind Williams's assignment. As the multifaceted deception begins to unravel, real danger comes to light. Mary is threatened by the professor's assistant. A police detective recalls the disappearance of an actual young woman whose plight was disturbingly similar to Polly's. At a party at Williams's house, Mary is handed a note that warns, "None of this is real." With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation. An inspired thriller about cognitive dissonance, conjectural misdirection and the conspicuous dichotomy between academia and the real world." -Kirkus Reviews, "Obedienceis evidence that crime fiction is hardly a played-out genre …. [G]rafts the world-turned-upside-down suspense of a Harlan Coben thriller to the hall-of-mirrors vertigo of a novel by Paul Auster …. [I]ts ultimate implications continue to spin out in a reader's mind after the final page is turned." -Wall Street Journal "Authentic puzzle mysteries are an endangered species in these hectic times, so it's a genuine, if slightly perverse, kick to follow every byzantine clue in this bizarre game…. If you solve this one without peeking at the last chapter, it's an automatic A." -New York TimesBook Review "Obedienceis a fiendishly clever thriller, debut or no, and Lavender exhibits deft control at the wheel." -Bookgasm.com "Obedienceis quite a twisty little number …. the taunting nature of the challenge is irresistible…." -New York Daily News "[T]his is one of those high-concept thrillers with a final twist that upends all expectations, filled with characters who are not what they seem." -Entertainment Weekly An inspired thriller about cognitive dissonance, conjectural misdirection and the conspicuous dichotomy between academia and the real world." -Kirkus Reviews "Will Lavender stuns with this compelling thriller…. The surreal but believable landscape fairly bursts from its confines, goading the reader into finishing just one more page." -Louisville Courier-Journal "It's a terrific book, part cat-and-mouse mystery and part psychological study of group behavior…. [A] wonderful book with a strong emotional punch at the end." -St. Petersburg Times "Lavender's first novel suggests he has a bright future. The novel is briskly plotted with deft narrative.Obediencebuilds to a swirling conclusion. It becomes a place where morality is blurred and intentions drift astray." -Tampa Tribune "In his tautly strung debut novel,Obedience, literature professor Will Lavender tears a page of out Milgram's notebooks and sets into motion a chain of events that escalates far beyond its intended intellectual exercise. . . . Mystery fans will be satisfied to hang on around the story's hairpin turns as the list of suspects swells and narrows with the unearthing of each clue, but Lavender . . . is aiming at a broader target and posing deeper questions." -Bookpage "First-time novelist Lavender has a knack for creepy characters and red herrings." -Library Journal "First novelist Lavender has sprinkled his text with enough red herrings to feed the Biblical 5,000 but uses them to build page-turning suspense. . . . Lavender's invocation of the notorious Milgram experiment conducted at Yale on obedience to authority adds an additionaland salutarylayer of psychological meaning to his elaborate plot." -Booklist More Praise for Obedience: "Obediencedraws you in and never lets go - and what a ride!" -David Baldacci "In his dream-like and labyrinthine debut, Will Lavender delivers a clever, intricate page-turner that kept me guessing late into the night.Obedienceis a house of mirrors where every corner we turn is a false reflection of the truth until the shocking final scene. A gripping exploration of human nature and all its foibles told in Lavender's fresh and original voice,Obedien
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
"With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation." --Kirkus Reviews When the students in Winchester University's Logic and Reasoning 204 arrive for their first day of class, they are greeted not with a syllabus or texts, but with a startling assignment from Professor Williams: Find a hypothetical missing girl named Polly. If after being given a series of clues and details the class has not found her before the end of the term in six weeks, she will be murdered. At first the students are as intrigued by the premise of their puzzle as they are wary of the strange and slightly creepy Professor Williams. But as they delve deeper into the mystery, they begin to wonder: Is the Polly story simply a logic exercise, designed to teach them rational thinking skills, or could it be something more sinister and dangerous? The mystery soon takes over the lives of three students as they find disturbing connections between Polly and themselves. Characters that were supposedly fictitious begin to emerge in reality. Soon, the boundary between the classroom assignment and the real world becomes blurred--and the students wonder if it is their own lives they are being asked to save., "With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation." -Kirkus Reviews When the students in Winchester University's Logic and Reasoning 204 arrive for their first day of class, they are greeted not with a syllabus or texts, but with a startling assignment from Professor Williams: Find a hypothetical missing girl named Polly. If after being given a series of clues and details the class has not found her before the end of the term in six weeks, she will be murdered. At first the students are as intrigued by the premise of their puzzle as they are wary of the strange and slightly creepy Professor Williams. But as they delve deeper into the mystery, they begin to wonder: Is the Polly story simply a logic exercise, designed to teach them rational thinking skills, or could it be something more sinister and dangerous? The mystery soon takes over the lives of three students as they find disturbing connections between Polly and themselves. Characters that were supposedly fictitious begin to emerge in reality. Soon, the boundary between the classroom assignment and the real world becomes blurred-and the students wonder if it is their own lives they are being asked to save., "Obedience" is a gripping debut thriller about a group of college students who discover their assignment could have deadly consequences.
LC Classification Number
PS3612.A94424O24
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