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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post The New Yorker Esquire The Austin Chronicle Kansas City Star The Guardian UK BookPage Flavorwire BookishA big, brilliant novel.The New York Times Book ReviewWho is A. N. Dyer Sons is a literary masterwork for readers of The Art of Fielding, The Emperors Children, and Wonder Boysthe panoramic, deeply affecting story of an iconic novelist, two interconnected families, and the heartbreaking truths that fiction can hide. The funeral of Charles Henry Topping on Manhattans Upper East Side would have been a minor affair his two-hundred-word obit in The New York Times notwithstanding but for the presence of one particular mourner the notoriously reclusive author A. N. Dyer, whose novel Ampersand stands as a classic of American teenage angst.