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Book Reviews
Copyright (c) 1993, Joe DeRouen
All rights reserved
AFTER SILENCE
Jonathan Carroll
Doubleday (Hardback)
$21.00 US, $26.00 Canada
Max Fischer, a successful cartoonist in his late thirties, lives in Los
Angeles. Scarred by recent love affairs, he's cautious yet intrigued
when he meets Lily Aaron and her nine-year-old son Lincoln. Lily, the
manager of an offbeat restaurant, devotes her life to raising her son
alone. As Max spends more and more time with the Aarons, he falls
irresistibly in love with them. The perfect woman, the perfect child -
the perfect situation, since they seem to love him, too, with equal
intensity.
After moving in with the Aarons, Max begins to uncover disturbing secrets
about Lily. She claims to be a widower, yet Max can find no trace that
her husband ever existed. Worse, he discovers she has committed a crime
so horrible that she has been running from it for years.
Therein lies Max's dilemma - Should he follow his morals are attempt to
right Lily's terrifying crime, or follow his heart and ignore the truth.
Either choice is wrought with pain and destruction.
The novel flows extremely well, taking us from the normal (if offbeat)
world of Max Fischer into the mystery of the Aaron family and beyond.
It's a thorough journey into fear, and one you'll make gladly.
The novel's end is a bit anticlimatic but the roller coaster ride it
takes you through makes the ending forgivable.
Author of seven novels and one short story collection, Jonathan Carroll
remains an enigma. His works have been classified as everything from
horror to dark fantasy to a written version of a german impressionist
film.
AFTER SILENCE once again weaves characters from his other novels into
the tapestry, creating a rich, full world that at times seems all too
real.
My rating: (out of ten points) 8