by John Banville

A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car–also borrowed–onto the estate of his youth.  But all is not as it seems.  There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos.  and this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. 

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