Imagine Me Gone

Beautiful, elegant, harrowing… This is a book that makes you eager, once more, for the complications of the world – Colum McCannThis 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 HardingMarvellously lucid and intelligent… [a] novel about family, love, and a despair that proves unbearable – Joy WilliamsImagine 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 KushnerUniversal 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 *

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 has 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.

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