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Highlights
- Four childhood friends in present-day New Orleans are torn apart by envy, passion, and a secret murder.Five years ago, Meredith, Brandon, Greg, and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new allegiances.
- Author(s): Christopher Rice
- 381 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Psychological
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Originally published: New York: Hyperion, 2000.Book Synopsis
Four childhood friends in present-day New Orleans are torn apart by envy, passion, and a secret murder.
Five years ago, Meredith, Brandon, Greg, and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new allegiances. Meredith, Brandon, and Greg gain popularity, while Stephen is viciously treated as an outcast. Then two violent deaths destroy the already delicate bonds of their friendship.
When the friends are drawn back together, new facts about their mutual history are exposed and what was held to be a tragic accident is revealed as murder. As the true story emerges, other secrets begin to unravel with more dangerous, far-reaching consequences.
A Density of Souls is a stunning debut novel that uncovers the darker side of the teenage psyche.
Review Quotes
"An intriguing, complex story, a hard-nosed, lyrical, teenage take on Peyton Place." --Publishers Weekly
"A chillingly perverse tale in which secrets are buried, then unearthed...Very earnest plot." --USA Today
"An imaginative, gothic tale." --Rocky Mountain News
"Solid debut novel...An absorbing tale." --Kansas City Star
"Tormented families...unspeakable secrets...a bloodthirsty young man. No, it's not Anne Rice, but her twenty-one-year-old son, Christopher." --Village Voice
"[Rice's] characters speak and act with an ease that proves [him] to be wiser than his years." --Austin Chronicle
"He's learned...a storyteller's sense of timing. And he capably brings a gay teen's inner turmoil to life." --Seattle Weekly