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Now You See It : A Novel
Author: Allison Lynn

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Publisher: Touchstone
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780743250269 - ISBN-10: 0743250265
Publication Date: 7/6/2004
Pages: 304


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:

David and Jessica have almost everything they could want: he is an accomplished journalist, she teaches at an elite private school, and they travel in a circle of alluring friends. Theirs is an enviable life -- until one night when David returns from a business trip. Jessica's wallet and keys are in their usual place, but she is gone. As months pass without her, David's certainty "that she is going to walk in that door tonight" slowly diminishes.

At the heart of this unnerving story is David's search for his wife -- which takes him far from his Manhattan neighborhood and deep inside himself.

At once heartbreaking and wry, Now You See It is a remarkable debut novel about the impossibility of fully knowing someone -- and what happens to the past when we have a second chance at the future. Now You See It presages a thrilling career for a fresh and gifted author.


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Suzanne R. (Suzanne60637) wrote on 10/1/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

I enjoyed this book pretty well. I think it was not constructed as well as it could have been... I kept wondering whether it was really just an internal exploration of what it means to know someone or whether it was also supposed to be a mystery of what happened to the narrator's wife. Turned out it was a bit of both, but mostly the former. There is also an interesting parallel story of the narrator's investigation of a missing American in Peru. I think I would have appreciated understanding from the get-go how much of the book would involve this story and whether it as well would have any closure. (It did.)

Angie T. (Yellowrose) wrote on 9/14/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I really enjoyed this book. Its really really good. A twist ending that I never saw coming. Great read.


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Ann R. (Annie128) wrote on 3/4/2006...


David & Jessica have almost everything they could want. He is an accomplished journalist, and she teaches at an elite private school. A perfect life some would say. But, how well do you really know a person? This is a tale about the appearances and disappearances that makes you really think about the characters, and what it forces you to see in yourself


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