After Silence

{{Short description|Book by Jonathan Carroll}}

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{{Infobox book

| image = After Silence.jpg

| caption = First edition (UK)

| cover_artist = Dave McKean

|author = Jonathan Carroll

|country = United States

|isbn = 0385473516

|language = English

|pages = 240

|publisher = MacDonald & Co (UK)
Doubleday (US)

|published = April 1992 (UK)[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?13306 www.isfdb.org] Retrieved 2019-08-23.
April 1993 (US)}}

After Silence is the eighth novel by the American writer Jonathan Carroll, published in 1992.{{Cite news|title = A Legacy of Pain : AFTER SILENCE, By Jonathan Carroll (Doubleday: $21; 227 pp.)|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-16-bk-35764-story.html|newspaper = Los Angeles Times|date = 1993-05-16|access-date = 2016-02-05|issn = 0458-3035|language = en-US|first = Susan|last = Heeger}} It tells the story of a successful cartoonist, the protagonist Max Fischer, who fell in love with a woman. Later he discovers many secrets, including a terrifying crime, about the woman and is confused about what to do.

Reviews of the novel are mixed. LA Times Reviewer Susan Heeger, thought the plot had a strong design, but was not expertly told: "Carroll's book doesn't rise above the level of an intriguing cautionary tale over-directed by someone anxious to get his point across." Publishers Weekly had a much more positive review, writing that the novel is "An electrifying, unforgettable novel that unfolds with the logic of a Greek tragedy, Carroll's parable on moral cowardice [has an] uncompromising honesty about how secrets gnaw and kill."{{Cite web|title = Fiction Book Review: After Silence-P331074/3 by Jonathan Carroll, Author Doubleday Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-41974-1|url = http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-41974-1|website = PublishersWeekly.com|access-date = 2016-02-05}} The London Review of Books describes the novel as representing the American "everyday" with "delicate descriptions".{{Cite news|title = Here is a little family|url = http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n13/amit-chaudhuri/here-is-a-little-family|newspaper = London Review of Books|date = 1992-07-09|access-date = 2016-02-05|issn = 0260-9592|pages = 18–19|first = Amit|last = Chaudhuri}}