![]() ![]() He is killed instantly, but the car continues on its way as Josh's father, Ethan, tries, in vain, to give chase. Striking Josh, who is standing at the side of the road. A speeding car suddenly careers around a bend, What happens in the opening pages of "Reservation Road" is this: the Learners are returning from a concert to their home in upstate Connecticut when they stop at a local gas station. Not only does the gas station in the painting play a pivotal role in this psychological thriller - it is the place where 10-year-old Josh Learner is struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver - but the painting's mood of brooding lossĪlso underscores the novel's haunting evocation of the precariousness of ordinary life. ![]() ![]() He cover of John Burnham Schwartz's new novel, "Reservation Road," depicting a country gas station, is reminiscent, in a crude way, of Edward Hopper'sįamous 1940 painting "Gas." There is something lonely and haunted about the picture, a sense of isolation, even impending menace. BOOKS OF THE TIMES A Child Is Killed, and So Is Faith ![]()
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