And Sons

Who is A. N. Dyer? For fans of The Art of Fielding and Wonder Boys this is the panoramic, deeply affecting story of an iconic novelist and the heartbreaking truths that fiction can hide. A.N. Dyer is Americas most mysterious literary recluse, his cult book Ampersand treasured by angst-ridden adolescents everywhere. But seventeen years ago, the unexpected arrival of a new baby Dyer wrecked the writers relationship with his wife and their own teenage sons. David Gilberts astonishing novel is an ingenious, death-defying leap into the life of a giant of literature and a father with one final revelation for his boys or is it actually just one last fiction?