By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling and continued with and, most recently, this intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he conte...By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling and continued with and, most recently, this intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement.