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An American Story

by Christopher Priest
An American Story by Christopher Priest
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Ben Matson lost someone he loved in the 9/11 attacks. Or thinks he did - no body has been recovered, and she shouldn't have been on that particular plane on that day. But he knows she was.

The world has moved on from that terrible day. Nearly 20 years later, it has faded into a dull memory for most people. But a chance encounter rekindles Ben's interest in the event, and the inconsistencies that always bugged him. Then the announcement of the recovery of an unidentified plane crash sets off a chain of events that will lead Ben to question everything he thought he knew.

Thoughtful, impeccably researched and dazzling in its writing, this is Ben's story, the story of what happened to his fiancé, and the story of all that happened on 9/11.

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Release date: September 17, 2018

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Christopher Priest

Christopher Priest

Christopher Priest was born in Cheshire, England. He began writing soon after leaving school and has been a full-time freelance writer since 1968.

He has published thirteen novels, four short story collections and a number of other books, including critical works, biographies, novelizations and children's non-fiction.

His novel The Separation won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award. In 1996 Priest won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Prestige. He has been nominated four times for the Hugo award. He has won several awards abroad, including the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany), the Eurocon Award (Yugoslavia), the Ditmar Award (Australia), and Le Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire (France). In 2001 he was awarded the Prix Utopia (France) for lifetime achievement.

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He has written drama for radio (BBC Radio 4) and television (Thames TV and HTV). In 2006, The Prestige was filmed by Warner Bros. Directed by Christopher Nolan, The Prestige went to No.1 US box office in its first week It received two Academy Award nominations. Another novel, The Glamour, is about to be filmed in the UK by director Gerald McMorrow. The Prestige has been adapted for the stage, with productions in preparation in London, France and Moscow.

He is Vice-President of the H. G. Wells Society. In 2007, an exhibition of installation art based on his novel The Affirmation was mounted in London.

As a journalist he has written features and reviews for The Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, the Scotsman, and many different magazines.

More books by Christopher Priest

The Evidence
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Episodes
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The Gradual
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The Adjacent
★ 8.50 / 2
The Islanders
★ 8.66 / 3
The Separation
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The Dream Archipelago
★ 9.00 / 1
Omnibus 1: The Space Machine & A Dream of Wessex
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Omnibus 2: Inverted World & Fugue for a Darkening Island
★ 7.00 / 2
eXistenZ
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The Extremes
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The Prestige
★ 9.66 / 6
The Quiet Woman
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The Glamour
★ 8.00 / 1
The Affirmation
★ 9.00 / 2
An Infinite Summer
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A Dream of Wessex
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The Space Machine
★ 10.00 / 1
The Inverted World
★ 8.56 / 9
Real-Time World
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Fugue for a Darkening Island
★ 7.00 / 6
Indoctrinaire
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