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The Testing of Luther Albright

By: MacKenzie Bezos
Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
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Summary

American Book Award Winner

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 increasingly bizarre and threatening, his loving wife seems to grow distant, the house he built with his own hands shows its first signs of decay, and a dam of his design comes under investigation for structural flaws exposed by the tremors. Nightmarish connections begin to whisper 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. This is a harrowing portrait of an ordinary man who finds himself tested and strives not to be found wanting.
©2005 MacKenzie Bezos (P)2013 Audible Inc.
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"A sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart." (Toni Morrison)

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Brilliant

This is an extraordinary and wonderful book. The press reviews are a travesty - the worst kind if inverted snobbery. Amazingly talented reflection on fatherhood....by a woman. A true feat of imagination.

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THE dullest book I've ever tried on Audible

Within ten minutes the dull rhetoric intoned in an adenoidal drawl had sent me to sleep - and I was listening while on a walk! The rating system forced me to give the story one but I only listened for 15 minutes before deciding that life was worth more than this.

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