Security View Online By Stephen Amidon
| Title | : | Security |
| Author | : | Stephen Amidon |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 276 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0374257116 |
There isn t much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachusetts It s a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich, where the average burglar alarm is set off by wildlife So when Edward Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel Security, gets a late night alarm from the home of Doyle Cutler, one of his wealthiest clients, Edward thinks nothing of it until a local student claims There isn t much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachusetts It s a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich, where the average burglar alarm is set off by wildlife So when Edward Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel Security, gets a late night alarm from the home of Doyle Cutler, one of his wealthiest clients, Edward thinks nothing of it until a local student claims that she was sexually assaulted that same night at Cutler s house
From the author of Human Capital a wonderfully wicked satire on a twenty first century gilded age, Chicago Tribune , Security is a timely, wry, and riveting story of adults and children, suspicion and sexual hysteria It confirms Stephen Amidon as a master of the art and one of the foremost chroniclers of American life todayabout Author
Stephen Amidon born 1959, in Chicago is an American author and film critic He grew up on the East Coast of the United States of America, including a spell in Columbia, Maryland, which served as the inspiration for his fourth novel The New City Amidon attended Wake Forest University as a Guy T Carswell Scholar, majoring in philosophy He moved to London, UK, in 1987, where he was given his fir Stephen Amidon born 1959, in Chicago is an American author and film critic He grew up on the East Coast of the United States of America, including a spell in Columbia, Maryland, which served as the inspiration for his fourth novel The New City Amidon attended Wake Forest University as a Guy T Carswell Scholar, majoring in philosophy He moved to London, UK, in 1987, where he was given his first job as a critic by Auberon Waugh, who invited him to review a novel for The Literary Review Shortly after this Amidon sold his first work of fiction the short story Echolocation was chosen by Ian Hamilton for inclusion in the Bloomsbury anthology Soho Square II He was awarded an Arts Council of Great Britain bursary for the short story in 1990 In 1999 he returned to the US His literary criticism and essays have appeared in many publications in North America and the UK and he has also worked as a film critic for the Financial Times and the Sunday Times Amidon is the author of a collection of short stories and six novels, the most recent of which, Security, was published by FSG in 2009 His fiction has been published in fifteen countries The novel Human Capital was chosen by Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post as one of the five best works of fiction of 2004 6 A film adaptation of Human Capital is currently in preproduction in Italy for director Paolo Virzi Amidon has written two non fiction books The Sublime Engine with his brother Tom, a cardiologist, and Something Like the Gods which is dedicated to his son, Alexander, who plays football for Boston College 
Human Capital
The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart
The New City
Something Like the Gods: A Cultural History of the Athlete from Achilles to LeBron
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There isn t much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachusetts It s a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich, where the average burglar alarm is s
276 pagesStephen Amidon
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