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Beautiful ChildrenCharles Bock

Beautiful Children

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One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son’s room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy’s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what’s become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell’s vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly…

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2 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2008
    Random House · 432 pages · 9781400066506
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Random House Publishing Group · 9781588366832
FictionDesertsBoysMissing childrenFiction, psychologicalMissing persons, fictionLas vegas (nev.), fiction