# After Gregory

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- Book: [After Gregory](https://www.bookquiver.com/austin-wright/after-gregory) ([After Gregory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/austin-wright/after-gregory.md))
- Authors: [Austin Wright](https://www.bookquiver.com/austin-wright)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-17-8649-211-1
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the author of the lost masterpiece, Tony and Susan , comes a kind of intellectual who dunnit, a novel with the thrill of the chase combined with a meditation on who we are, and who we might like to be. Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, tries to drown himself in the Ohio River. Failing to manage even that, he decides to hitch a ride east, fleeing the state and escaping accusations of rape and murder. As he assumes and discards aliases along the way, he believes that he can begin again, a fresh start – but the past has a habit of catching up with all of us, no matter how fast we run…