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Ill Will
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Edoardo Ballerini, Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Scott Aiello
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Two sensational unsolved crimes - one in the past, another in the present - are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.
“We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves.”
This is one of the little mantras Dustin Tillman likes to share with his patients, and it’s meant to be reassuring. But what if that story is a lie?
A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother, Rusty, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin’s parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning.
Meanwhile, one of Dustin’s patients has been plying him with stories of the drowning deaths of a string of drunk college boys. At first, Dustin dismisses his patient's suggestions that a serial killer is at work as paranoid thinking, but as the two embark on an amateur investigation, Dustin starts to believe that there’s more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon, he becomes obsessed, crossing all professional boundaries - and putting his own family in harm’s way. From one of today’s most renowned practitioners of literary suspense, Ill Will is an intimate thriller about the failures of memory and the perils of self-deception. In Dan Chaon’s nimble, chilling prose, the past looms over the present, turning each into a haunted place.
Cast of Narrators:
Ari Fliakos as the Narrator
Edoardo Ballerini as Dustin
Michael Crouch as Aaron
Alex McKenna as Wave and Kate
Scott Aiello as Rusty
PRAISE FOR DAN CHAON
Among the Missing
“Unforgettable...hums with life and wry humor.... The stories sneak resolutely up on you, like new weather that hits before you know it.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“One of those writers who possess an uncanny and seemingly otherwordly understanding of the human condition...Chaon [is] a remarkable chronicler of a very American kind of sadness, much in the tradition of Richard Yates, Raymond Carver, and Denis Johnson.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
You Remind Me of Me
“Remarkable...weaves the threads into a whole that is not only satisfying but devastating.” (Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice)
“Extraordinary...renews my faith in the unique capacity of literature to help us understand and ultimately respect ourselves and the strange, baffling, complex figures we all can be.” (Houston Chronicle)
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- cristina
- 03-23-17
Not for those who like rosy things
This is a very dark book which accounts for the disparate reviews. If you like uplifting stories of triumph over adversity, this is not for you. If you like brilliant writing and unusual characters, give it a try. It is totally unexpected and I am already listening to another one by the same author (equally dark...Mr. Chaon is not a happy man). Yes, the ending could have been different, but I didn't find it as jarring as some of the other reviewers. In fact, it almost had to be so. And the performances are stellar. Ballerini has always been one of my favorite narrators but all of the others do a great job as well.
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- justin day
- 03-17-17
A Certain Kind
This is a certain kind of book for a certain kind of person. It's going to divide people. To read it is to take a chance. If you are going to take that chance, don't spoil it by reading tons of reviews. Just dive in.
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- W Perry Hall
- 02-18-18
Eerily electric, Cerebral thriller
An eerily electric and cerebral thriller with undertones of horror
How reliable are our memories from childhood? Are some just echoes of hallucinations? Were some placed by suggestion or shaded by self-delusion? Were the unsolved murders of the protagonist's parents really part of a satanic ritual or was all 'evidence' of such attributable to the 1980s hysteria for suspecting murderers-for-Mephistopheles?
Dan Chaon is a maestro at modulating keys of madness and fear in both the protagonist and the reader. As Ill Will progresses in intentional fragments from various POVs and times, the story gets more hazy and more harrowing, with an unsettling sense in the subtext of the sordid and at times the perversely erotic.
And yet, putting this book down is like awaking from a nightmare and feeling the urge of self-preservation to re-enter it because you were right on the verge of figuring everything out.
The novel is the cynosure of creeping doom and escalating uncertainty. So, beware of the scrooping sounds from the chorus of criticasters who need their stories to end in a nice tight package to appreciate literary brilliance. Ill Will will have your hair on end and leave you with cold blood coursing your veins.
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- Linda
- 07-23-17
STRANGE
This is one weird book. Many characters, disjointed,convoluted!
A story about a totally disfunctional family. The characters are depressing and unlikeable.
5 people found this helpful
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- Xero Hax
- 07-02-17
No resolution.
Nothing gets resolved. The writer purposefully leaves almost all questions unanswered. Fantastic narration.
Really good writing, too.
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- M. Kramer
- 04-01-17
Tense
A great story. Well written and very well read. The readers did a great job.
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- Will
- 09-13-19
kinda Disappointed.
Took a chance, mainly because two of my favorite narrators, were apart of what became a great narrated AB, however; the story was just decent, and you really had to pay attention because of the flashbacks, and multiple narrators, or you would get lost, and the ending was very anticlimactic.
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- A. Cohen
- 06-19-19
A dark and powerful book.
This is an excellent book. Dark yes. Depressing sure. However, all the reviews claiming the ending is unresolved and/or confusing are completely missing the point.
Unless you demand simple plots and cliched endings, ignore the negative reviews and enjoy this complex, disturbing, original work.
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- LucyScofield
- 08-06-18
A GREAT STORY VIVIDLY PERFORMED
Dan Chaon writes without flinching of the consequences of our cruelties, both intentional and casual, to one another. This story, which is performed with perfect pitch, will reverberate and endure in your mind.
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- Gerry Levine
- 05-13-18
What we don’t know we create
Disturbing tale told by degraded souls of a blended family each of whom is in search of the elusive details of their lives... and deaths. Eerie, intense, at times terrifying reminding us we really know much less about people than we want to believe. The readings and voices draw out the story very effectively.
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- joanjava
- 03-26-17
Dark and deliberate.
Interesting twists in p.o.v. Growly voiced narration pitch perfect. Prose self conscious at times. Good listen. Recommended.
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- avidreader
- 12-30-18
We need to talk about Dustin
Amazing, long ride of a book. I thoroughly enjoyed it, narration superb, narrative voices just right.
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- Scot Dutch
- 09-09-19
Genius
Captivating..uncomfortable...fascinating...
Unsettling...disturbing...brilliant! Highly recommend. A must listen! Gets the little grey cells going.
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- finnea
- 09-13-19
Engrossing story
This is an engrossing read with some complex plotting. Chaon relies on the device of the "unreliable narrator" with no one having much of a grip on reality, including the psychotherapist. This more or less makes sense since everyone is in the grip of unremitting trauma, barely able to save themselves much less others. All the characters seem dissociated from their actions and any moral conviction. There is no good or bad here -- just a steady inevitable decline into darkness. Very good of its kind.