History of Wolves
Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2017
Summary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
‘A writer with a great future ahead of her…her prose is exquisite’ LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE YARD
How far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda ‘Freak’, or ‘Commie’. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have gr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474602969 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474602967 |
| Author: | Emily Fridlund |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth
As exquisite a first novel as I’ve ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautifulSo much is accomplished here, not least a kind of trust that this writer will make everything count, including the kind of data that is usually left for dead in a storyAbout The Author
Emily Fridlund
Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Her collection of stories, CATAPULT, was chosen by Ben Marcus for the Mary McCarthy Prize. She lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York. HISTORY OF WOLVES is her first novel.
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