Bibliograph

We shall not all sleep, a novel, Estep Nagy

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We shall not all sleep, a novel, Estep Nagy

Language

eng

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

We shall not all sleep

Responsibility statement

Estep Nagy

Sub title

a novel

Summary

For generations they've shared the small Maine island of Seven, but the Hillsingers and the Quicks have always kept apart, even since before Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married sisters. When Jim is ousted from the CIA under suspicion of treason, he begins to suspect that he has been betrayed -- by his brother-in-law, Billy, and also by his own wife, Lila. In retaliation, he decides to carry out an old threat: to send their twelve-year-old son Catta, to a neighboring island to test his survival skills. Catta resolves to take the test further and pass it on his own terms. Set over three summer days in 1964, Estep Nagy's debut novel moves among the communities of Seven -- the families, the servants, and the children -- as longstanding tensions become tactical face-offs in which love, loss, and long-held secrets become brutal ammunition

Target audience

general

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