John Burnham Schwartz Bücher

Julian Rose reflektiert über sein Leben, das stark von seiner Liebe zu Claire geprägt ist. Trotz der kurzen gemeinsamen Zeit sind ihre Schicksale untrennbar verbunden. Nach Claires Tod findet Julian Frieden, da er erkennt, dass auch sie ihn stets geliebt hat.

Das Buch zum Film mit Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo und Jennifer Connelly Nach dem tödlichen Verkehrsunfall des kleinen Josh gerät das Leben der Learners aus den Fugen. Die Familie droht an dem schweren Schicksalsschlag zu zerbrechen. Aber auch Dwight Arno, der den Jungen überfuhr und Fahrerflucht beging, kämpft jeden Tag aufs Neue mit seinen Schuldgefühlen. Er lebt ganz in der Nähe der Learners und beobachtet sie in ihrem Leid. Und dann ist Ethan Learner von Tag zu Tag mehr von der Idee besessen, den Mörder seines Sohnes selbst aufzuspüren. Und tatsächlich stehen sich Dwight und Ethan eines Tages gegenüber-.

In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in 1967, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story. By her side is Peter Horvath, a young lawyer sent by the CIA to smuggle Svetlana into America. She is a contradictory celebrity: charismatic and headstrong, lonely and haunted, excited and alienated by her adopted country's radically different society. Persuading herself that all she yearns for is a simple American life, she attempts to settle into a suburban existence in New Jersey. But when this dream ends in disillusionment, Svetlana reaches out to Peter, the one person who understands how the chains of her past still hold her prisoner. As their relationship changes and deepens, unfolding under the eyes of her CIA minders, Svetlana's and Peter's private lives cease to be their own. John Burnham Schwartz's father was in fact the young lawyer who escorted Svetlana to the US. Drawing upon private papers and years of extensive research, Schwartz imaginatively re-creates the story of an extraordinary, troubled woman's search for a new life and a place to belong

A compulsively readable novel of feeling and suspense about two men and their families, and the hit-and-run death of a young boy.On an ordinary night in a quiet Connecticut town, the Learners stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner, age 10, is standing at the side of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. Josh is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away.The boy's father saw it happen. His eight-year-old sister believes it was her fault. His mother tries to keep herself -- and her family -- together. And as they slip into nightmare, the novel becomes a harrowing countdown to confrontation between the hit-and-run driver -- half running from his crime, half wanting to pay for it -- and Ethan Learner, in deadly pursuit of the unknown man who killed his son.Already hailed as "a nonstop read about people locked in a terrible embrace" (Ward Just) and a" first-rate work of fiction disguised as a page-turning thriller" (David Halberstam), Reservation Road is powerful, wrenching, impossible to put down.

A cycle of violence and retribution is set in motion as two haunted men are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. Ethan, a respected professor at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession for revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, fleeing his crime yet hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. As these two men's lives unravel, Reservation Road moves to its startling conclusion.