The Room And The Chair

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A jet aircraft falls straight out of the sky into an island park in the heart of Washington DC. But no-one seems to have noticed. Well, almost no-one. At the capital's paper, the staff are in a frenzy, and the news, and ambition, can blind. In Washington's other power centre, Will queasily watches videos of a beheading from Falluja while lamenting the loss of his best double-agent, eliminated by the Iranian authorities whose nuclear intentions he was reporting. But that agent, Hoseyn, might yet provide the missing pieces that will permit the jigsaw to be completed from beyond his own death .

Reviews

"Adams is a singular and important American writer. "The Room and the Chair" is remarkable for its ambitions and its achievements. . . . One of the triumphs of this book is that it's a war novel that's mostly about women. Though often unwitting tools and even more often thwarted, they are the fulcrum of the book, lifting what might otherwise be a dazzling thriller into the realm of literature."
--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Wonderful. . . . One of the most thrilling literary novels I've read in years. . . . Lorraine Adams seems to have it all--a journalist's sharp eye, a poet's ear, a cynic's wisdom and a story-teller's flourish. . . . . A tough, fast and beautiful read."
--Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of "Let the Great World Spin"
"Spellbinding. . . . Fiercely intelligent. . . . A stunning portrayal of our uneasy days. . . . Sinuous and intricate

Author Bio

Lorraine Adams was educated at Princeton and at Columbia University. She won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and was a staff writer for the Washington Post for eleven years. She lives in NYC, and Harbor was her first novel.