About This Book
In this debut novel by American author Jack Lawrence Luzkow, Max Klein, a hopeful writer, finds himself lost in the gap between his disappearing youth and approaching middle age. Dismayed by the prospect that his writing is going nowhere, unable to return Vera Shelton's love for him and afraid that he has created expectations he can't fulfill, Klein abandons an apparent paradise in rustic Illinois and sets off for the West Coast. In California, along the solitary shores of the Pacific, he meets a woman who is capable of giving him back everything he thinks he has lost. But the more he learns about Liana Varlova, the more he fears that she may or may not be who she says she is, and that her grandfather, the man with whom she lives, may in fact be her husband or father or both. Beguiled by the mystery that surrounds him, a mystery in which identity becomes more and more blurred and nothing is as it appears, Klein soon comes to doubt his own senses and finally his identity as well. Too late, he realizes that the novel he has always wanted to write is happening to him, but he is not the author.
