Before You Know Kindness (Vintage Contemporaries) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Before You Know Kindness (Vintage Contemporaries) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives , presents his most ambitious and multi-layered novel to date--examining wildly divisive issues in today’s America with his trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill. On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired–accidentally?–by his adolescent daughter Charlotte. With this shattering moment of violence, Chris Bohjalian launches the best kind of literate page-turner: suspenseful, wryly funny, and humane.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Before You Know Kindness (Vintage Contemporaries) Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Chris Bohjalian: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Before You Know Kindness (Vintage Contemporaries) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The bullet-cylindriform as a rocket but tapering to a point almost sharp enough to prick skin with a casual touch-was two and a half inches long when it was in its cartridge in the rifle.