Paperback:
368 pages (February 2000)
Vintage Books
ISBN: 0375727345
Dimensions (in inches): 0.79 x 8.02 x 5.20
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Description
In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet
determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly
escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a
struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his
family's dignity. Kathy Niccolo is a recovering alcoholic and addict
whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won
stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who
finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping
her fight for justice.
Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the
California hills—and what it represents to each of them—and doomed by
their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge on
an explosive collision course. Combining unadorned realism with profound
empathy, House of Sand and Fog is a devastating exploration of
the American Dream gone awry.
