In the Lake of the Woods

Tim O’Brien

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780006543954
• eBook ISBN:
  9780007381753
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of 'Going After Cacciato' and 'The Things They Carried', which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery.

In a remote lakeside cabin deep in the Minnesota forests, Kathy Wade is comforting her husband John, an ambitious politician, after a devastating electoral defeat.

Then one night she vanishes, and gradually the search for Kathy becomes a voyage into the darkest corners of John Wade's life, a life of deception and deceit – the life of a man able to escape everything but the chains of his darkest secret.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Excerpt
• Contents
• 1 How Unhappy They Were
• 2 Evidence
• 3 The Nature of Loss
• 4 What He Remembered
• 5 Hypothesis
• 6 Evidence
• 7 The Nature of Marriage
• 8 How the Night Passed
• 9 Hypothesis
• 10 The Nature of Love
• 11 What He Did Next
• 12 Evidence
• 13 The Nature of the Beast
• 14 Hypothesis
• 15 What the Questions Were
• 16 Evidence
• 17 The Nature of Politics
• 18 Hypothesis
• 19 What Was Found
• 20 Evidence
• 21 The Nature of the Spirit
• 22 Hypothesis
• 23 Where They Looked
• 24 Hypothesis
• 25 Evidence
• 26 The Nature of the Dark
• 27 Hypothesis
• 28 How He Went Away
• 29 The Nature of the Angle
• 30 Evidence
• 31 Hypothesis
• Keep Reading
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Praise
• Also by the Author
• About the Publisher