What happens when the writer revisits the scene of a crime from a previous novel, a childhood murder dire with class conflict and dispassion for the disadvantaged? What happens when a boy with money runs into a boy without money runs into a boy with an impediment and all three run together into a nanny with enumerated rules for play? What happens looking back when an old man, a young wife, and a ladder-climbing forensic psychiatrist mingle in triangle? In the hands of Gordon Lish, such a book rivets as the terms tighten. It happens in a sandbox. It happens in Woodmere. Think contemporary master achieving feats with the art of story and the language traveled in our passage to ourselves. "In To Have Written a Book, his tumultuously moving newest novel, Gordon Lish augments his legacy." — Cynthia Ozick "Lish is still our Joyce, our Beckett, our most true modernist." — Kirkus "The US’s answer to Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernard." — The Guardian