Peter Cunningham. (2017). The Trout: a Novel. Arcade.

Peter Cunningham. 2017. The Trout: A Novel. Arcade.

Peter Cunningham, The Trout: A Novel. Arcade, 2017.

Peter Cunningham. The Trout: A Novel. Arcade, 2017.

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   • bioText: Peter Cunningham is an award-winning novelist, who won the Prix de l'Europe and the Prix Caillou for his historical novel The Sea and the Silence. He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish Academy for Arts and Letters and lives with his wife in County Kildare, Ireland.
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The Trout: a Novel

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At the heart of every life there lies a secret.
Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book, and it awakens in him deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that he may have murdered a man, a feeling so strong it changes him and threatens his marriage. Alex has no choice but to return alone to Ireland and his estranged father, to try and begin to solve the mystery.
A novel of great literary beauty structured as a tense psychological thriller, The Trout is a tale of predators and prey, deception, and the hidden crimes that can shape a life. Alex's physician father loved to fish and imbued in him a deep knowledge of the sport. In brief passages, this fisherman's lore periodically comes to the surface and resonates deeply with the dark mystery at the core of the novel.

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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Cunningham is a writer who knows exactly how to cast line after line with a deftness and grace that summon the truth from the depths of the past up to the surface, at last. . . . An absorbing and intricate story."
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   • source: Julia Keller, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sorrow Road
   • content: "In language that is sharp and cool and lovely, Peter Cunningham tells a darkly captivating tale of childhood angst that sparks the long haunting of a man's life. It is, like his previous novels, a thing of eerie beauty, slender in size but monumental in the memory."
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   • source: John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author
   • content: "Subtle, powerful, and beautifully written, The Trout captivates from the first page and never lets up. This book provides rich, character-driven suspense of a very high order. I simply loved it."
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   • source: Craig Nova, award-winning author of The Good Son and The InformerRed Sky in the Morning and Black Snow
   • content: "There are writer's writers, and then there are reader's writers, and Peter Cunningham has the distinction of being both. The Trout is a keenly written, compulsively readable book, at once mesmerizing and beautiful."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: “[A] superbly crafted psychological thriller . . . Mesmerizing."
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   • source: Sunday Times (London)
   • content: “A poet walks through these pages weaving time past and time present into sadness and grace."
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   • source: Bord Gáis Energy Book Club, Book of the Month
   • content: "[A} thoughtful, exquisitely told tale . . . Cunningham artfully spins several stories at once.""
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   • source: Irish Daily Mail
   • content: “Cunningham's engaging novel challenges us to create our own metaphors so we may, like the trout, raise our head above the surface towards truth."
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   • source: Irish Times
   • content: “Hooking the reader with immediately accessible characters, The Trout is a 'read at one or two sittings' story. The gentle familiarity of the characters deceives while several layers of tension are introduced."
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    • source: Irish Independent
    • content: “The strong characters, the excellent pacing, the sense of mystery, the undercurrent of menace and the beauty of the writing all come together to suck you in--in what is essentially a perfect storm of a novel."
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    • source: Irish Daily Mail
    • content: “A well-crafted crisply written, gripping story."
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      May 15, 2017
      Writer Alex Smyth, the narrator of this satisfying novel from Irish author Cunningham (Capital Sins), grew up in Ireland but has settled in rural Bayport, Ontario. One day he receives a letter postmarked in Toronto containing only a fishing lure, which stirs up unsettling childhood memories, some of which involve another boy, Terence Deasy. Alex thinks he “murdered someone” when he was seven, but he can’t remember. As he tells his wife, Kay, “It’s like there are big holes in my brain.” He also feels uncomfortable that his first novel falsely eulogizes his elderly and estranged father, Dr. Patrick Smyth. Leaving Kay at home in Bayport, Alex returns to Ireland to seek answers from his father and to track down the key players from his childhood, including Terence. Cunningham artfully spins several stories at once: Kay, alone in Bayport with her doubts about their marriage and fears of a stalker; Alex seeing people and events from both a child’s and an adult’s perspective. Brief, cogent paragraphs about trout provide a connecting thread in this thoughtful, exquisitely told tale.

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At the heart of every life there lies a secret.
Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book, and it awakens in him deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that he may have murdered a man, a feeling so strong it changes him and threatens his marriage. Alex has no choice but to return alone to Ireland and his estranged father, to try and begin to solve the mystery.
A novel of great literary beauty structured as a tense psychological thriller, The Trout is a tale of predators and prey, deception, and the hidden crimes that can shape a life. Alex's physician father loved to fish and imbued in him a deep knowledge of the sport. In brief passages, this...

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