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    Ill Will: A Novel
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    Ill Will: A Novel
    Audiobook14 hours

    Ill Will: A Novel

    Written by Dan Chaon

    Narrated by Ari Fliakos, Edoardo Ballerini and Michael Crouch

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    About this audiobook

    Two sensational unsolved crimes-one in the past, another in the present-are linked by one man's memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.

    "We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves." This is one of the little mantras Dustin Tillman likes to share with his patients, and it's meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie?

    A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother, Rusty, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin's parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning.

    Meanwhile, one of Dustin's patients has been plying him with stories of the drowning deaths of a string of drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses his patient's suggestions that a serial killer is at work as paranoid thinking, but as the two embark on an amateur investigation, Dustin starts to believe that there's more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed, crossing all professional boundaries-and putting his own family in harm's way.

    From one of today's most renowned practitioners of literary suspense, Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan Chaon's nimble, chilling prose, the past looms over the present, turning each into a haunted place.

    Cast of Narrators:
    Ari Fliakos as the Narrator
    Edoardo Ballerini as Dustin
    Michael Crouch as Aaron
    Alex McKenna as Wave and Kate
    Scott Aiello as Rusty

    PRAISE FOR DAN CHAON

    Among the Missing

    "Unforgettable . . . hums with life and wry humor . . . The stories sneak resolutely up on you, like new weather that hits before you know it."-The New York Times Book Review

    "One of those writers who possess an uncanny and seemingly otherwordly understanding of the human condition . . . Chaon [is] a remarkable chronicler of a very American kind of sadness, much in the tradition of Richard Yates, Raymond Carver, and Denis Johnson."-San Francisco Chronicle

    You Remind Me of Me

    "Remarkable . . . weaves the threads into a whole that is not only satisfying but devastating."-Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)

    "Extraordinary . . . renews my faith in the unique capacity of literature to help us understand and ultimately respect ourselves and the strange, baffling, complex figures we all can be."-Houston Chronicle

    Await Your Reply

    "Stunning . . . Like the finest of his storytelling heroes, Mr. Chaon manages to bridge the gap between literary and pulp fiction with a clever, insinuating book equally satisfying to fans of either genre."-The New York Times

    "A riveting thriller, chock-full of plot twists . . . There's a bristling momentum that develops, as in any great tale of suspense. . . . [Chaon] writes with an eloquence rarely seen in the world of page-turners."-Los Angeles Times Book Review

    Stay Awake

    "Eerily beautiful . . . [Chaon] is the modern day John Cheever."-Boston Sunday Globe

    "There are not many fiction writers who can do what Dan Chaon can do. . . . [He is] a literary force."-The Philadelph
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781524756666
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    Ill Will: A Novel
    Author

    Dan Chaon

    Dan Chaon is the author of several books, including Ill Will, a national bestseller, named one of the ten best books of 2017 by Publishers Weekly. Other works include the short story collection Stay Awake (2012), a finalist for the Story Prize; the national bestseller Await Your Reply; and Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and the O. Henry Collection. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction and the Shirley Jackson Award, and he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland.

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