Tom is Dead
Author: Darrieussecq, Marie
ISBN: 9781921520310
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 170
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator's son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time since that day, she spends a few minutes without thinking of him. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom's story, the story of his death. She writes about the first hours, the first days, and then about the hours and the days before. She strives to describe it all as precisely as possible. It's the details that will lead her and the reader to the truth.
ISBN: 9781921520310
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 170
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator's son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time since that day, she spends a few minutes without thinking of him. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom's story, the story of his death. She writes about the first hours, the first days, and then about the hours and the days before. She strives to describe it all as precisely as possible. It's the details that will lead her and the reader to the truth.
