Meet Raskolnikov, the best reason you’ll ever have not to kill someone. Inner turmoil made all the more complex and soul-wrenching in Dostoyevsky’s typical style, Crime and Punishment is one of those books you’ll both pat yourself on the back for finishing and thank yourself for picking up. Personally, I think it’s his best, and I dare you to give it a shot and tell me differently.
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man's life. Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Taken in by the family's patriarch, Corey soon finds himself in the midst of a complex tangle in which loyalty, politics, and gratitude conflict with morality and love.