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1. Aug. 2005 · The Testing of Luther Albright. : MacKenzie Bezos. Harper Collins, Aug 1, 2005 - Fiction - 272 pages. “A sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart. A sure-footed excavation into the nuances of everyday terror—the kind that turns devotion into despair, trust into treachery, love into loss. Its pull is irresistible.”.
1. Aug. 2005 · MacKenzie Bezos's The Testing of Luther Albright, a debut novel that heralds the beginning of what bodes to be a substantial writing career, starts with this sentence: "The year I lost my wife and son, my son performed nine separate tests of my character." We don't know what "lost" means yet, but as the story unfolds, we learn that "lost" is certainly the most appropriate word.
- MacKenzie Bezos
The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel by MacKenzie Bezos is a psychological thriller that explores the effects of a devastating earthquake on a family. The book is written by the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and has received critical acclaim. Find out more about this gripping story and order your copy today.
25. Juli 2006 · In MacKenzie Bezos' quietly absorbing first novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, the jumble of pipes and tubing snaking through her protagonist's modest two-story house is his very soul writ large. As an emotionally repressed young man, Luther built it and laid the plumbing with his own hands. Twenty-three years later, he's an emotionally repressed husband and father who communes more ...
25. Juli 2006 · In the midst of his heartbreaking family dissolution, Luther must battle against the need to withhold his emotions and push his family even farther away. Nightmarish meanings begin to shout at Luther from the most innocent of places as debut novelist MacKenzie Bezos tightens her net of psychological suspense around the reader with bravura skill.
Luther Albright is a builder of dams, a man whose greatest pride - besides his family - is the house he built himself and the knowledge that he's constructed something that will shelter them from harm. However, when a minor earthquake shakes his California home it soon reveals fault lines within his family. His son's behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre and threatening, his devoted wife more ...
17. Juli 2006 · In "The Testing of Luther Albright," MacKenzie Bezos draws you into the intimacy of Luther Albright's mind. We hear his every thought and experience every nuance. The writing is personal and inviting all while it is occasionally especially revealing. This is a meticulously researched novel with a distinct male voice.
- Bezos
