Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber.
When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself literally driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process. A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times. 'Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by globalaffairs' OBSERVER
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Arrow (Random)
ISBN: 9780091953751
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 372
Tiempo de lectura:
7h 41m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 08/07/2021
Año de edición: 2021
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Douglas Kennedy
DOUGLAS KENNEDY nació en Manhattan el 1 de enero de 1955. Comenzó su carrera escribiendoliteratura de viajes, pero sus grandes éxitos internacionales han sido sus novelas. Es autor de The Big Picture, The Job, State of the Union, The Woman in the Fifth, Leaving the World, The Pursuit of Happiness, Temptationy A Special Relationship (estas tres últimas obras de próxima publicación en Editorial Planeta). Su obra ha sido traducida a más de veinte idiomas y ha vendido más de ocho millones de ejemplares en el mundo. Algunas obras de Kennedy han sido adaptadas al cine, sobre todo en Francia, donde es aclamado por la crítica y el público, y donde se le ha concedido el título de Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras. Vive a caballo entre Europa y Estados Unidos.