A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic,
from one of the great writers of his generation.
Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes
the myth. Marries the owner's daughter, touches greatness few will ever
dream of, retires into what he assumes will be the promised afterlife of
days on the golf course, celebrity endorsements, and cushy real estate
investments. But markets tank, family disintegrates, fame fades, and the
holes in his mind and memory from a career of punishment on the field
become too large and frightening to ignore. When he hears of a miracle
brain damage treatment forbidden in the U.S., he travels to the Mosquito
Coast of Honduras in search of a chance to restore himself to the man he
was. Instead, he finds himself on a journey that plunges him into a
darkness more violent and horrific than he could have possibly
imagined--at once a fight for his life and to hold onto the shards and
fragments of the life he's fighting for.
A sports saga, sprawling thriller, and existential reckoning with the
rot at the core of the west, told by an unheralded, singular master,
Pure Life is a daring, complex, and brutal confrontation with and
demolition of our modern myths in the most primal of settings--one as
perilous as it is imperiled.
