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The Interloper.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Owen, the narrator of this taut debut novel, is a newlywed and a writer of software manuals--"a solid B," in his own estimation. This happy sense of stable mediocrity is demolished during his honeymoon, when his wife's brother is murdered, and she, in her grief, becomes emotionally distant. After the killer receives a lenient prison sentence, Owen, hoping to "unpoison the soil" of his marriage, contrives an intricate scheme to inflict what he ...

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