The Mayor's Tongue

by Nathaniel Rich

The Mayor's Tongue

Hardcover, 310 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $24.95 | purchase

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Follows the dual stories of two men—young Eugene, a passionate reader who devotes himself to an adventurer writer, and elderly Mr. Schmitz, who in a series of ominous letters to a missing friend describes his growing desperation about his wife's deteriorating health.

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