THE GLASS POND
Time, memory, and music create an unexpected looking glass as two lifelong friends reconnect after several years. Eric Seever, an award-winning author, emails Julian Forbes, the internationally renowned violinist touring India, to help him solve a mystery. Eric has just discovered the secret identity of the author whose book enabled him to foretell the personal computer and Internet a decade before they occurred. When Julian returns, they meet at Max’s Comedy Club in Greenwich Village to see Eric’s madcap comedienne sister, Edith, perform her over-the-top act. Soon they begin making unusually wide-ranging discoveries about the interlocking puzzles of their past and future.
“King structures his novel primarily as a series of conversations, recalling the dialogues of Plato…the symposium-like discussions will likely inspire new connections about life, death, and art.”
– Kirkus Reviews
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