The Good Father

First published 2012

As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen’s specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.

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Daniel Allen has always been a good kid—a decent student, popular—but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.

About the author

Noah Hawley, born 1967, United States.

Subjects

Catalogue record

Author: Hawley, Noah, 1967–
Statement: The Good Father / Noah Hawley.

Book facts

Pages: 307
ISBN: 978-1-4447-6856-5

4 more ISBNs

978-1-4447-3039-5
978-0-385-53553-3
978-1-4447-3036-4
978-1-4712-2880-3
Records: Open Library