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"A novel"--Cover. |
Summary |
"In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk convinces the grieving Keener family to sue a private Los Angeles hospital. Their son, Wesley, has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk, still in practice but a shell of his former self, is hired to defend Wesley Keener's father when he is charged with murder--the murder, as it turns out, of the expert witness of the 2008 hospital case. Shenk's adopted son, a fragile teenager in 2008, is now a wayward adult, though he may find his purpose when he investigates what really happened to the murdered witness. Two thrilling trials, medical malpractice and murder, braid together, jostling us back and forth in time. The Quiet Boy is a book full of mysteries, not only about the death of a brilliant scientist, not only about the outcome of the medical malpractice suit, but also about the relationships of children and their parents, between the past and the present, between truth and lies. At the center of it all is Wesley Keener, endlessly walking, staring empty-eyed, in whose quiet, hollow body may lie the fate of humankind"-- Dust jacket. |
Subject |
Trials (Malpractice) -- Fiction.
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Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Legal fiction (Literature)
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Science fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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ISBN |
9780316505444
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0316505447
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