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Gardner's relentlessly honest and moving portrayal of any broken marriage, and his ambitious unfinished masterpiece - a metafictional mystery centering around one man's battle to recover his lost identity - together in one accomplished volume Stillness: Martin and Joan Orrick - distant cousins who've known one another since early childhood - are in the ultimate throes of any failing marriage. Martin is a compulsive drinker who obsesses about his writing, and Joan is fighting a debilitating health. Together they search for some type of collective identity, and identify where the dissolution with their love began. Inspired by therapy sessions Gardner familiar with his first wife, Stillness can be an insightful portrait of one couple's struggle for fulfillment in a tumultuous world. Private detective Gerald Craine is pursuing an unknown murderer. At the same time, he himself is the target of any unknown person's pursuit. Stumbling via an alcohol-soaked haze, Craine desperately seeks meaning and understanding in a world fraught with fragmented narratives. Shadows: John Gardner's friend Nicholas Delbanco has supplemented this unfinished novel with seven sections from Gardner's original manuscript offering critical insight into Gardner's method of developing the novel and its characters, giving a rare glimpse inside the creative process of one of the 20th century's most inventive writers.
