When a scandalous small-town crime goes viral, a teen girl takes center stage in the story of a twenty-first-century Puritan witch hunt
Rosecrans Baldwin is the author of You Lost Me There and Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down. He lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews
When teen Nick is arrested for murder and the case goes viral, both
his family and his girlfriend are thrust into the spotlight.
--Entertainment Weekly (Best Books of the Month)Bracing . . . The
Last Kid Left is The Scarlet Letter by way of one of Michael
Connelly's Bosch novels, one part study of herd mentality and one
part procedural. --The Los Angeles TimesRosecrans Baldwin drives a
modern murder mystery in The Last Kid Left." --Vanity Fair Virtuoso
bursts of language and characterization and insight... Who killed
the hell out of this nice small-town New England doctor and his
wife? And why? That's more than enough to keep the plot of a
thinner novel going all on its own -- but Baldwin isn't done. He's
barely getting started. --NPR
The opening chapter dramatizing Nick's arrest is a barnburner.
--The Wall Street Journal (Best New Fiction)[A] finely wrought
thriller. Baldwin's novel steers clear of tidy endings, remaining
faithful to delivering a story that ebbs and flows with the
messiness of real life. --BookPageRosecrans Baldwin's new novel
examines the way that true-crime narratives can obsess our culture
-- and, given the way that cultural commentators have begun to
delve into the ethics of this, it seems to be coming at exactly the
right time. --Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Praise for You Lost Me There
"A stunning debut . . . You Lost Me There is, finally, a wise book,
the kind that eludes many authors twice Baldwin's age . . .
Profound, affecting, and true." --Michael Schaub, NPR (Best Books
of the Year)Gorgeously atmospheric . . . Baldwin's storytelling
grace is so delicate that the reader never doubts the deep
emotional ache in this man of intellect, the joy that co-exists
with his grief, or the underground river of love so deep it
perversely paralyzes him. You Lost Me There is a smart, tender, and
generous novel. --Lauren Groff"Baldwin's prose is wise and nimble,
clever without being self-conscious, true to the myriad voices of
his characters." --Fiona Zublin, The Washington Post"Beautiful,
brainy, offbeat . . . Baldwin shows steadying compassion and
literary flair in the dissection of miseries." --Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly "In fiction as in life, you can't save people
from themselves. Although that never keeps anyone from trying, as
Rosecrans Baldwin's amiable first novel demonstrates." --New York
Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
Praise for Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
"It's this balance of the city's dirty deceptions . . . with the
timeless elegance of every boulevard and back-alley bistro that
makes the book feel so necessary and welcome." --Daniel Riley, GQ
(Best Books of the Year)"Deftly written, with a wry style and
liberally deployed irony . . . Very funny." --Dominic Tierney, The
Atlantic MonthlyA charming, hilarious, keenly observed, and
surprisingly poignant journey into the Parisian state of mind.
--Anthony Doerr"Funny, filmic, and shocking: A Judd Apatow film in
the waiting." --John Freeman, The Boston Globe"What makes Baldwin's
book particularly enjoyable is that it engages with the clash of
our American idea of Paris and Paris the modern reality." --Claire
Lundberg, Slate
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