Summary
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND’S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023
John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. After years of chaotic struggle against the world took his own life at the age of 42.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781805303343 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805303341 |
| Author: | John Niven |
| Publisher: | Canongate Books |
| Imprint: | Canongate Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 23mm |
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‘Vivid, visceral, brilliantly funny in places, dispensing sharp punches to the gut in others … [O Brother] made me sob more than once, and I suspect it will do the same to you’ - Guardian‘Riotous and yet bracingly moving … Often exuberant, laugh-out-loud funny, touching, sad and rueful’ - Observer‘Heartbreaking, and told with tenderness and honesty … The writing is first rate, without announcing how good it is. I can’t recommend it strongly enough’ - Spectator‘An honest epitaph for a troubled soul, tender and sentimental, but shot through with anger and regret for the things left unsaid’ - The Times‘Oh my God, this book! O Brother feels like war-level reportage from the nuclear-blast that suicide inflicts on a family. [… ] A book whose genuine importance is only equaled by its sheer, visceral, compulsive readability’ - CAITLIN MORAN
About The Author
John Niven
John Niven is the author of eleven books, including Kill Your Friends, The Second Coming and Straight White Male. As a screenwriter his credits include The Trip, Kill Your Friends and How to Build a Girl. O Brother is his first non-fiction book.
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