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Boy Still Missing

John Searles

2001292 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2001
first published
  • 2001William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers · 292 pages · ENGISBN 9780688175702
  • 2008HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061627187
  • 2008HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780061627224
  • 2008HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780061661839
  • 2008HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780061627200
  • 2008HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780061627217
  • 2009HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780061856952
  • 2005Harper Perennial · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780060822439

It is June 1971. Dominick Pindle, a tenderhearted but aimless Massachusetts teenager, spends his nights driving around with his mother and dragging his wayward father out of bars. Late one evening, Dominick's search puts him face-to-face withhis father's seductive mistress, Edie Kramer. Instantly in lust, he begins a forbidden relationship with this beautiful, mysterious woman. Before long, though, their erotic entanglement leads to a shocking death, and Dominick discovers that the mother he betrayed hid secrets as dark and destructive as his own.Charged with the exhilarating narrative pace of a thriller and set during a complicated and explosive era, Boy Still Missing is the critically acclaimed debut novel from John Searles. It renders a deeply affecting portrait of a boy whose passage into adulthood proves as complex and impassioned as the history that unfolds before his eyes.

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