Double Trouble

At a lonely railway stop, Florian Amidon watches a star split in two. Then the platform lurches—and he wakes in pajamas on a winter train, greeted as Mr. Brassfield.

It is June 1896 in Hazelhurst, where the wealthy banker is admired as a pillar of the town, though he longs for art, letters and a life beyond the bank. Setting off alone to test whether business owns him or he owns it, Florian seems to drift from one ordinary evening into another man’s bewildering world: it is winter, he is on an unfamiliar train, and even the porter knows him by a different name. If Florian Amidon is not Mr. Brassfield, then who is—and what happened to the life he left behind?

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