My Abandonment
now a major film, ‘leave no trace', directed by debra granik ('winter's bone')
$29.23
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2018
Summary
Living Wild: A Tale of Abandonment and Survival
‘A beautiful, strange novel … Fascinating and moving, it tells with great tenderness how human love goes wrong’ Ursula K. Le Guin
‘The recent novel I recommend most … a short, disciplined, unsettling book’ Hanya Yanagihara
Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. Day to day, they live in an elaborate cave shelter, wa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473691964 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473691966 |
| Author: | Peter Rock |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 177g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
Poignant … My Abandonment lingers in the mind, leaving you as haunted as its mesmerizing characters
Poignant … My Abandonment lingers in the mind, leaving you as haunted as its mesmerizing characters - New York Post
A beautiful, strange novel … Fascinating and moving, it tells with great tenderness how human love goes wrong - Ursula K. Le GuinPeter Rock’s My Abandonment is an electrically charged, bone-deep and tender tale of loss and partial redemption. Surreal, haunting, elegiac - James EllroyAbout The Author
Peter Rock
Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. My Abandonment won an Alex Award, the Utah Book Award, and has been published in various countries and languages. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologised widely. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and other awards, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches writing at Reed College.
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