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Imagine Me Gone: a novel - Softcover

Haslett, Adam

 
9780241972885: Imagine Me Gone: a novel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241972884 ISBN 13: 9780241972885
Verlag: Penguin, 2017

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Shortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017
2017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction
TIME Top Ten Novels of 2016

'It might be the best American novel about a middle-class family since Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections' Independent

'Exceptional, haunting, distinctive... [It] resembles the work of Anne Tyler, intertwining grief and love... Intimate and panoramic' The Sunday Times

'Dreadfully sad and hilariously funny. Literature of the highest order' Peter Carey

Universal and essential, the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy

Michael's father walked into the woods one day, and out of his family's life for ever. Yet he and his brother and sister see it less as a tragedy in their past and more as a forewarning of the future. For Michael - smart, brilliant, so alive and vital - feels the darkness that drew their father away and how, given the chance, it might take the whole family. He wants to save them - but can he save himself?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Adam Haslett is the author of the short-story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, a New York Times bestseller shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the US National Book Award, and the novel Union Atlantic, winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Hamish Hamilton published his latest novel, Imagine Me Gone. His books have been translated into eighteen languages and his writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, the Financial Times, and Der Spiegel, among others. He lives in New York.

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Universal and essential, the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy. Michael is a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher than the boys, unshakeably certain about how the world works. And then there's Alec, the most ambitious and also the most sensitive, growing up in the shadow of his older siblings. While all three are still young, the course of their lives is changed forever. In a family ma

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241972884
ISBN 13 
9780241972885
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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