SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 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 marked by tragedy, Michael, Celia and Alec struggle for years to save one another from the destructive legacy of guilt. Weaving together the voices of five family members, Adam Haslett imagines how a single event can define many lives, unfolding a rich and painful novel that has all the makings of an American classic.
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.
Show moreSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 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 marked by tragedy, Michael, Celia and Alec struggle for years to save one another from the destructive legacy of guilt. Weaving together the voices of five family members, Adam Haslett imagines how a single event can define many lives, unfolding a rich and painful novel that has all the makings of an American classic.
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.
Show moreHugely ambitious and richly human, the story of a family coping with the terrible legacy of tragedy.
Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Imagine Me Gone and Union Atlantic. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. His journalism on culture and politics have appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He lives in New York City.
Beautiful, elegant, harrowing... This is a book that makes you
eager, once more, for the complications of the world
*Colum McCann*
This beautiful, tragic novel will haunt you for the rest of your
life... Michael is simply one of the finest characters I've ever
come across... An extraordinary work of art
*Paul Harding*
Marvellously lucid and intelligent... [a] novel about family, love,
and a despair that proves unbearable
*Joy Williams*
Imagine Me Gone is beautiful, it's terrifying, it's intimate and
epic, and it's devastating - one of the great books about loss and
mourning and the ineluctable laws that govern families. I cannot
describe the force or the depth of its accomplishment except to say
that this magnificent work of art has overwhelmed me and broken my
heart. It will take me a long time to come to terms with this
novel.
*Tony Kushner*
Universal and essential. A book that you do not read as much as
feel, deeply in the very marrow of your bones
*BookPage*
There are some books, and this is one, that grab you in the first
paragraphs and don't let go. A beautiful novel that re-evaluates
how we cope with tragedy
*Elle*
Brilliantly captures the excruciating burden of love
*Esquire*
Dark and winning humour, poignant tenderness, and sentences so
astute that they lift the spirit. But make no mistake, the novel's
most rewarding surprise is its heart
*New York Times Book Review*
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