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In the midst of his heartbreaking family dissolution, Luther must battle against the need to withhold his emotions and push his family even farther away.Nightmarish meanings begin to shout at Luther from the most innocent of places as debut novelist MacKenzie Bezos tightens her net of psychological suspense around the reader with bravura skill.
Feb 26, 2022 · by MacKenzie Bezos. Luther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions.But when an earthquake shakes his Sacramento home, the world Luther has constructed with such care begins to tilt: his son's behavior becomes ...
Aug 12, 2005 · “The Testing of Luther Albright” by MacKenzie Bezos Fourth Estate, 239 pp., $23.95. The unreliable narrator is one of the harder tricks to pull off well in a novel, with its constraints on the ...
Jan 1, 2005 · The Testing of Luther Albright. Hardcover – Import, January 1, 2005. A civil engineer and devoted father, Luther Albright is alarmed when he sees cracks developing in the facade of his family. His teenage son's behaviour is becoming increasingly bizarre and threatening; meanwhile, a dam Luther built comes under investigation for structural ...
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Aug 3, 2005 · Published on August 3, 2005 04:00AM EDT. Luther Albright, the fussy, maddening, heartbreaking narrator of MacKenzie Bezos’ outstanding first novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, is someone you ...
Jul 25, 2006 · The Testing of Luther Albright presents a finely wrought psychological portrait of a haunted man precariously clinging to his beliefs as he faces the one examiner he both loves and fears the most. Questions for Discussion. The novel opens with the sentence, "The year I lost my wife and son, my son performed nine separate tests of my character."
The Testing of Luther Albright MacKenzie Bezos, . . Fourth Estate, $23.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-06-075141-8
