The Double Bind (Vintage Contemporaries)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence.

When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont's back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won't let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret-a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsby's Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written an extraordinary novel.

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395 pages

Average rating: 7.29

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Anonymous
Aug 01, 2023
6/10 stars
What a strange book. Perhaps the disjointed writing style is Bohjalian's device to suggest Laurel's psychotic break, but it does not serve him well. His previous writing is so fluid, and a pleasure to read, but this book was jagged and very difficult. Again, if a literary device, he is to be commended for wielding it well, but one can only hope that he will return to his previous style soon.
stoney
Aug 19, 2022
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RSanquiche
Jun 14, 2022
8/10 stars
RS gave 4 stars
janeen@mac.com
Jan 27, 2022
This was the very first book we read for book club.

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