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Chances Are


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Friendship Fiction,
  • Martha's Vineyard,
  • Suspense
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Old friends reuniting with secrets simmering beneath the surface
  • Martha's Vineyard settings layered with nostalgia and unresolved mysteries
  • Literary fiction that blends humor with suspenseful undercurrents
Publisher Description

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls.

Three men in their late sixties—old friends from college, each with a secret—come together on Martha's Vineyard. One beautiful September day, three men in their late sixties convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today—Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey is a musician beyond his rockin' age.

But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971. Now, forty-five years later, three lives and that of a significant other are put on display while the distant past confounds the present in a relentless squall of surprise and discovery.

Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . . . introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga.

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