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Kennedy, Douglas Big Picture
Hyperion 1998 0-7868-8937-3 / 9780786889372 Mass Market Paperback
ABOUT THE BOOK Big Picture ANNOTATION Intricately plotted and surprisingly moving, The Big Picture offers a riveting tale of obsession, identity, and murder. Heartbroken by the realization that his wife is having an affair, a lawyer in a prestigious New York firm finds himself spiraling toward desperation after his confrontation with the lover turns ugly. LG Selection. 416 pp. $750,000 major marketing campaign. 400,000 print. (General Fiction) FROM THE PUBLISHER What If You Had to Choose Between Your Life and Someone Else's? Ben Bradford has it all: a beautiful wife and two healthy sons, a big house in an affluent Connecticut suburb, partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm. But scratch the surface and you'll find a deeply unhappy man. Not only are Ben's dreams of life as a professional photographer slipping away, but so is his wife -- into the arms of another man, who, Ben discovers, just happens to be a photographer. What If You Had No Choice? When a confrontation with the lover turns ugly, a spilt second is all it takes to change Ben's life forever. Quickly realizing that there is only one way out, he sets into motion a meticulously detailed plan that ultimately lands him out West, with a shot at the proverbial second chance. But the price tag is high: Ben must give up his friends, his home, his children, his name. His life. And just when it seems he's pulled it off, Ben kearns there's a small hitch: Even in a small town in Montana, it's only a matter of time before your past catches up with you.... FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly This astonishingly assured first novel, by an American working in London as a journalist, has a breathless readability that is rare-particularly as it seems at first to cover pretty familiar territory. Ben Bradford is a Wall Street lawyer living a comfortable life in Connecticut, with a wife and two small children, but he seems to be heading, rather early, for a midlife crisis. He had always wanted to be a photographer, still putters around at it, but feels his life is ebbing away. Beth, his wife, a frustrated novelist, is increasingly estranged from him. Then Ben discovers she has taken a lover-ironically, another failed photographer-and in a confrontation with the man, Gary Summers, Ben's accumulated rage leads to a moment of murderous madness. Both Beth's infatuation with Gary and Ben's maniacal rage seem rather out of character, but with that caveat, the rest of this headlong novel grips like a vise as Ben carefully covers up his crime, disappears and takes on his victim's identity. The Big Picture has to be the most careful and imaginative exploration of such a situation ever penned, from the details of how one convincingly contrives an apparent accidental death to the minutiae of building a new life, unrecognized, in a far place. In Ben's case, it is a small town in Montana, and his born-again existence there is rich in ironies, from his eventual success as a photographer to his ultimate need to disappear yet again. The book is more than just a compelling read: it also has poignant and moving things to say about lost opportunities and wasted lives in America, the cynical quality of sudden fame, the awfulness of willed separation from deeply loved children. There is a lot of excitement in the air about Kennedy's novel, and it is thoroughly justified. Library Journal Ben Bradford is a successful lawyer with a wife, two children, and a house in the suburbs. He is also obsessed by his dream of becoming a photographer. Forced to confront the reality of his crumbling marriage and professional life, he struggles ineffectually to regain control. One out-of-control moment ends in death. Horrified, he wallows in self-pity as he methodically tries to cover his tracks and recover his previously despised lifestyle. The literate prose, competently read by Cotter Smith, cannot compensate for the shallowness of the characters in this abridged version. Still, this classic suburban tragedy may appeal to the many listeners who enjoy social commentary associate
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