Anyone's Ghost, 9781035034109
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Three car crashes, two boys, one devastating queer love story.
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Anyone's Ghost

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    320 pages

  • Release Date

    29 September 2025

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Summary

Anyone’s Ghost: A Queer Love Story of Loss and Remembrance

The gorgeous, devastating must-read queer love story of the summer.

IT TOOK THREE CAR CRASHES TO KILL JAKE

The first crash. New Hampshire. Teenagers Theron and Jake meet in the heat of the summer. Jake is everything Theron wants to be – hot, cool, interesting. Drunk in Jake’s van on their last night together, they hurtle off a dirt road at 2am.

The se…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035034109
ISBN-10:1035034107
Author:August Thompson
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:29 September 2025
Weight:220g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

Anyone’s Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the frustrations of masculinity and the thrill of testing death itself. But more than any of that, it is an overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is IlluminatedYou know those books that you take with you everywhere? That you won’t stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That change you? Anyone’s Ghost is that book. Thompson has fired a literary flare into the black night of the universe and the illumination is spectacular. – Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Genuinely powerful * The Irish Times *This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled – Matt Berninger, frontman of The NationalAnyone’s Ghost is a ferocious novel of erotic friendship, uncategorizable love, and vexed masculinity, voiced by a narrator as winning and largehearted as any character I’ve recently met. With its psychedelic prose and fierce moral intelligence, this is one of those books that makes you want to keep living. To read it is to fall more deeply in love with the world. – Maggie Millner, author of Couplets: A Love StoryThis is a beautifully observed tale, which really stays with you, and it should be placed alongside modern love stories such as Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow * Crack *This book is a monster: the magnificent writing, the gallery of characters, the fascinating glimpse into the right now make it stand about twenty feet tall among new books I’ve read – Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life[An] electric debut novel … With shades of André Aciman and Donna Tartt, the book fascinates from its first sentence … Thompson’s hypnotic prose and addictive plot moves and exhilarates in equal measure. * Vogue *

About The Author

August Thompson

August Thompson was born and raised in the middle of nowhere, New Hampshire. He studied in New York and Berlin, wasted all of his good hearing at metal shows, taught English in Spain for two years, and spent another two on couches across three continents. He returned to New York as a Goldwater Fellow at NYU’s Creative Writing Program. At the age of 26, he came out as bisexual. Anyone’s Ghost is his first novel.

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