Beautiful Children

Charles Bock

Original title: Beautiful children

earliest edition we have, 2008 John Murray, 2008 421 pages

One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings na...

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Beautiful Children edition · 2014 · Penguin Random House · 9781299076211
Beautiful Children edition · 2009 · Hodder & Stoughton · 432 pages · 9780719596308
Beautiful Children paperback · 2009 · Random House Trade Paperbacks · 432 pages · 9780812977967
Beautiful Children edition · 2008 · Random House, Incorporated · 9780739499177
Beautiful children edition · 2008 · John Murray · 421 pages · 9780719596209

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