The radiance a novel

When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is caught between revelation and madness as an uncanny pull toward a brilliant campus colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into...

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Main Author: Akhtar, Ayad (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Summit Books, 2026.
Edition:First Summit Books hardcover edition.
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Summary:When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is caught between revelation and madness as an uncanny pull toward a brilliant campus colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator's accident--both the violence and its aftermath. Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, The Radiance is of our American moment and beyond it--asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.
Physical Description:286 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781668078631
1668078635
Author Notes:Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. Akhtar is the author of the novels American Dervish , a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and Homeland Elegies , named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by The New York Times . He has also authored the plays McNeal , Junk , Disgraced , The Who & The What , and The Invisible Hand. Akhtar was named the New York State Author in 2021.