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03181aam a2200421 i 4500 001 FF28425084BE11ECA1DCE93A4FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220203010027 008 190528s2018 ncu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019296795 020 $a 1616208619 020 $a 9781616208615 035 $a (OCoLC)1016408208 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d CGP $d OCLCF $d ATNSH $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Swann, Christopher, $d 1970- $e author. 245 10 $a Shadow of the Lions / $c Christopher Swann. 250 $a First paperback edition. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill, North Carolina : $b Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $c 2018. 300 $a 366 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes an essay by the author and questions for discussion. 520 $a "How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? A prestigious boys' boarding school. A best friend's betrayal. A decades-old mystery of a missing student. In this sharp literary thriller, Matthias Glass gets drawn into his past as he attempts to come to terms with the long-ago disappearance of his prep-school roommate--and to become the man he is meant to be. In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's roommate and best friend Fritz Davenport runs off into the woods after the two boys have an argument--and vanishes without a trace. Ever since, Matthias has felt responsible, thinking that their fight, about a betrayal of the school's honor code, led to Fritz's disappearance. A decade later, after an early triumph with his first novel, followed by too much partying and too little work, Matthias realizes he has stalled out, become a failure as a writer, a boyfriend, a man. So when he is offered a job at Blackburne as an English teacher, he sees it as a chance to put his life back together. But once on campus, Matthias gets swiftly drawn into the past, and is driven to find out what happened to Fritz. Along the way he must reckon with Fritz's complicated and powerful Washington, D.C., family, the shocking death of a student, and begin to understand his own place in the privileged world of Blackburne. In the spirit of film noir, Shadow of the Lions is a tale full of unexpected turns--a thriller, but also a moving story that is as much about the mystery as it is about the redemption of a broken friendship and a lost soul"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Missing children $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Preparatory school students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Preparatory schools $x Faculty $v Fiction. 650 7 $a English teachers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912393 650 7 $a Missing children. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023685 650 7 $a Preparatory school students. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075490 655 7 $a Suspense fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Mystery fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726755 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20220203010747.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF28425084BE11ECA1DCE93A4FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search