About this book
Overview
Ê Catherine Strayed is living a quiet, unremarkable life in a secluded college town following the mysterious death of her husband, a promising writer whose death may have been an accident, a suicide, or perhaps even a murder. When her former mentor (and onetime lover)--a powerful critic who singlehandedly destroyed her late husband's chance for success--takes a teaching job at the college, Catherine's world threatens to collapse. For with him has come his latest protg, an exotic young woman named Antonia Lively. Antonia's debut novel has become a literary sensation--but it is, in fact, an almost factual retelling of a terrible crime that she relates without any concern for the impact its publication will have on the lives of those involved.
Ê As Antonia insinuates herself into Catherine's life, mysterious and frightening things start to happen, because unbeknownst to Catherine, the younger woman intends to plunder her own dark, regrettable past--and the unsolved death of her husband--for her next literary triumph.
Ê Provocative and cunning, Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence asserts that fiction is never truly fictional and asks, What does stealing another's life do to your soul? Levinson spins a tale of surprises, peeling back one revelation only to find another in this tightly wrought, wickedly cynical look at the worlds of academia, publishing, and celebrity.Ê
