Books by Scott Spencer

A smart, haunting thriller with bass reverb and a pounding heart.Jayne Anne Phillips, author of the National Book Award finalist Lark and TermiteScott Spencer, the acclaimed author of Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper, reaffirms his storytelling mastery with Man in the Woodsa gripping psychological thriller about a carpenter at loose ends and the crime of passion that radically reorders his world. Rudy Wurlitzer lauds Man in the Woods as a stunning work that offers heartbreaking insights into the dark frailties of human nature, and which he calls, a page turner from beginning to end. And New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose hails its achievement, writing, In this brilliant novel, Scott Spencer further expands his range.

Avery Jankowsky is a thirty-seven-year-old Manhattan writer scraping by on freelance assignments. Despite his lack of ambition, and very much to his own surprise, he has won the affections of Deirdre, a Columbia grad student many years his junior. But when Deirdre tells him that she has been having an affair, Avery's world is shattered.