- Hardcover: 271 pages
- Publisher: Ecco Pr (July 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0880014113
- ISBN-13: 978-0880014113
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
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From Publishers Weekly
A would-be good Samaritan waxes self-destructive in his efforts to help an injured woman escape her past in this intriguing, low-key mystery from the author of Splitting the Atom, Subdivision and Thirst. On his way home to the once-prosperous tobacco town of Burleigh, N.C., reluctant real-estate marketer David Webster runs a stranger off a remote stretch of road in the wake of a heavy storm. After pulling the attractive, disoriented woman from the wreckage of her car, David, for reasons he can't explain, stays involved. When the nameless woman disappears from the hospital, David finds her again, and though she is resolutely uncommunicative (she reluctantly tells him her name is Sara and refuses to identify herself further), he puts her up first in a motel and then in one of his boss's properties. The warning signs mount, but David only becomes more deeply entangled with Sara. He keeps the relationship a secret from his wife, his friends and the authorities as he attempts to uncover what he fears will be some unsavory secrets of her past. While Amidon's ending is abrupt and rather unsatisfying, his taut narrative generates great tension mixed with bouts of dry, rural Carolina humor. There is something fascinating in the mixture of lust, ennui and good intentions that pushes this protagonist to act with such unaccustomed abandon.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
A novel sexual and artistic deception. David Webster's life appears to be perfect - beautiful wife, good job, wonderful house - but this facade is pushed aside when he runs down a young woman, and his life changes dramatically.
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thriller that should not be forgotten, Feb 8 2005
By lisatheratgirl "lisatheratgirl" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Primitive: A Novel (Hardcover)
I guess this is out of print, because I picked it up at a church sale. This author is a talented writer, nice and clean, keeps action moving, no factual errors that I could see, no unnecessary elements. A great story of a North Carolina tobacco town that is destroyed by a leveraged buyout of the main employer and plunged from prosperity to depression. This is not just backdrop but becomes an integral part of the plot. The main character stops to help a woman after a car accident and becomes more and more involved with her, without knowing her past or her identity. He risks his job, his marriage and maybe his life as he becomes obsessed with "helping her." One secret after another is gradually revealed with a tremendous momentum building to the end. I think this is excellent writing, and I would hope people would still be able to get this book. It was written in 1995, and it definitely works as a period piece from the events that were taking place at that time. It works just as well today.
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