How far would you go to understand?
THIEF
A Novel
Maureen Gibbon
Sarah Crichton Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan
$14.00 Original Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-374-27454-2
Available May 2010
A raw and moving novel of self-discovery and perseverance.
“I just read THIEF. All I can say is WOW. This book is multi-faceted with a compelling story line. Thief is a classic exploration of ”the dark night of the soul.” It delves into the ideas of redemption/forgiveness for yourself and others. The characters are fascinating and very human. With a blatant, sometimes almost painful, honesty, the book grabbed me from the first page! I can see this used in reading groups and literature classes. One of THE best books I have read in a while.”
– Angie Grafstrom, Inspiration Hollow, Roseau, MN“Gibbon writes beautifully of the heartbreaking gulf between expectation and reality that women continue to endure, and the tragedies that await those who refuse to abide by these difficulties. It is her heroine’s refusal to be afraid, her understanding of the violence at the heart of things, her embrace of the world’s beauty, and her great conscience that save her, and inspire the reader.”
– Susanna Moore, author of The Big Girls and In the Cut
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ABOUT THE BOOK
In writing that has been likened to that of Kate Chopin, Maureen Gibbon shows us how to play the hands we are dealt in THIEF.
Suzanne, a teacher off for the summer, has rented a cabin in a small town in the north woods of Minnesota, to escape the Cities, and her most recent dysfunctional relationship. She begins corresponding by letter with a convict named Alpha Breville, whose crime she plumbs for the hope of revelations of a trauma she suffered at the age of sixteen. As she experiments with this precarious relationship, she begins to liberate herself from the turbulence that has characterized her life ever since that event. Not virgin, victim, or vigilante, who then, is Suzanne?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maureen Gibbon is the author of Swimming Sweet Arrow, a novel, and Magdalena, a collection of prose poems. A graduate of Barnard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has received fellowships from the Bush Foundation and Loft McKnight. Her writing has also appeared in Playboy and The New York Times Magazine. She in an English professor at Bemidji State University and spends her summers in Park Rapids, MN.
