The Primitive [Import] [Hardcover]

Stephen Amidon (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz (1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0575058455
• ISBN-13: 978-0575058453
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Stephen Amidon was born in Chicago. He is the author of Subdivision, a book of short stories, and six novels, including The New City and Human Capital, which Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post chose as one of the five best novels of 2004. His books have been published in sixteen countries, and he is a regular contributor of essays and criticism to newspapers and magazines in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. He lived and worked in London for twelve years before returning to the United States in 1999. The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart, which he co-authored with his brother Tom, was released in 2011 and selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five best health and medicine titles of the year. Amidon's next book, Something Like The Gods, will be released on June 5th, 2012. For more information, visit stephenamidon.com.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars thriller that should not be forgotten, February 8, 2005

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This review is from: The Primitive: A Novel (Hardcover)

I guess this is out of print, because I picked it up at a church sale. This author is a talented writer, nice and clean, keeps action moving, no factual errors that I could see, no unnecessary elements. A great story of a North Carolina tobacco town that is destroyed by a leveraged buyout of the main employer and plunged from prosperity to depression. This is not just backdrop but becomes an integral part of the plot. The main character stops to help a woman after a car accident and becomes more and more involved with her, without knowing her past or her identity. He risks his job, his marriage and maybe his life as he becomes obsessed with "helping her." One secret after another is gradually revealed with a tremendous momentum building to the end. I think this is excellent writing, and I would hope people would still be able to get this book. It was written in 1995, and it definitely works as a period piece from the events that were taking place at that time. It works just as well today.