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Love triangles are a dime a dozen in novels, but hate triangles are altogether rarer. In John Burnham Schwartz's swift, smooth second novel, Reservation Road (Knopf; 292 pages; $24), the three-sided relationship between Ethan Learner, a pacifist English professor; his wife Grace, a trusting garden designer; and Dwight Arno, a temperamental probate lawyer, converges on a common point of pain: the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Josh Learner, Ethan and Grace's music-prodigy son, at the cold steel hands of Dwight's Ford Taurus. The death is an accident, all blood and vectors...
...other students in his dorm set up their computers--but now, she said, "the dorm people are outraged." Stacy May, 17, another dorm neighbor, said she and others had decided to snub him. "Everybody I know is not going to say hi to him. He's an awful person." Ethan Berger, 18, had more practical advice: "I'd leave if I were...
...some unfindable hole in time, childhood vanishes. That's the haunting, unstated theme of this extraordinarily good first novel. The title is a child's way of saying "odyssey," and the voyage at the novel's core is that of 13-year-old Philip Shumway. One ordinary summer afternoon, Ethan, Philip's much loved elder brother, walks away from their house and is never seen again. The Shumways--Philip, three sisters and their parents--track him separately into obsession. Philip's childhood is burned away, cauterized, by the loss, and the half-formed man whose personality coalesces is shadowed...
...Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
BORN. To former co-stars and current newlyweds UMA THURMAN, 28, and ETHAN HAWKE, 27: a girl, Maya Ray; in New York City...