Red Rover

Deirdre McNamer has won praise for the intelligence, beauty, precision, and breadth of her fiction. This beautifully crafted, far-ranging novel of idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendship tells the story of three Montana men--brothers Aidan and Neil Tierney, and their friend Roland Taliaferro--who get swept up in the machinations of World War II and its fateful aftermath. After the war, Aidan returns to Montana ill and emotionally shattered from the war, and on a cold December day in 1946 is found fatally shot, an apparent suicide. Only when Neil and Roland are very old men does Aidan's death become illuminated, amplified, and finally put to rest.

Author: Deirdre McNamer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780143113546

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/31/2008 pg. 20