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The Night Country 

Or, the Darkness on the Edge of Town 

by

Stewart O'Nan

The Night Country: Or, the Darkness on the Edge of Town

(2003)
A novel by

Stewart O'Nan

"...scary, sad, funny...mesmerizing read..."
Stephen King


 

At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living.

A strange and unsettling ghost story in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson, The Night Country creeps through the leaf-strewn streets and quiet cul-de-sacs of one bedroom community, reaching into the desperately connected yet isolated lives of three people changed forever by the accident: Tim, who survived yet lost everything; Brooks, the cop whose guilty secret has destroyed his life; and Kyle's mom, trying to love the new son the doctors returned to her. As the day wanes and darkness falls, one of them puts a terrible plan into effect, and they find themselves caught in a collision of need and desire, watched over by the knowing ghosts.

Macabre and moving, The Night Country elevates every small town's bad high school crash into myth, finding the deeper human truth beneath a shared and very American tragedy. As in his highly-prized Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, once again Stewart O'Nan gives us an intimate look at people trying to hold on to hope, and the consequences when they fail.
 
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Hardback Editions

October 2004 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0747571694Title: The Night Country
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 0-7475-7169-4 / 978-0-7475-7169-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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February 2004 : Board book
Cover of ISBN: 078626179XTitle: The Night Country
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 0-7862-6179-X / 978-0-7862-6179-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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October 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0374222150Title: The Night Country
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 0-374-22215-0 / 978-0-374-22215-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Paperback Editions

September 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0747571740Title: The Night Country
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 0-7475-7174-0 / 978-0-7475-7174-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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September 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0312424078Title: The Night Country: A Novel
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 0-312-42407-8 / 978-0-312-42407-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Picador US
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2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B0012GLFL4Title: Night Country, The
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
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Audio Editions

October 2004 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1593552351Title: The Night Country
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 1-59355-235-1 / 9781593552350 (USA edition)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
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MP3 CD
Cover of ISBN: 1593352425Title: Night Country, The
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 1-59335-242-5 / 9781593352424 (USA edition)
Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
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MP3 CD
Cover of ISBN: 1593355114Title: Night Country, The
Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
ISBN: 1-59335-511-4 / 9781593355111 (USA edition)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Lib Edn (L)
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