In the Lake of the Woods (Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point))

by Tim O'Brien

A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of `Going After Cacciato' and `The Things They Carried', which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery.

In a remote lakeside cabin deep in the Minnesota forests, Kathy Wade is comforting her husband John, an ambitious politician, after a devastating electoral defeat.

Then one night she vanishes, and gradually the search for Kathy becomes a voyage into the darkest corners of John Wade's life, a life of deception and deceit - the life of a man able to escape everything but the chains of his darkest secret.

• ISBN10: 061870986X
• ISBN13: 9780618709861
• Publish Date: 1 September 2006 (first published 1 October 1994)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Imprint: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

I read this for my Yr 11 English class. And I have mixed feelings. Surprisingly I didn't hate it. But I hated the ending. Here's the thing - I hate not knowing. I can't stand ambiguous endings where you're supposed to come to your own conclusions. And this does not tell you one way or another.

It was interesting for the most part. I liked the mystery. I didn't hate the romance. Some of it made me sick. And not knowing if he did it or not made me angry.