You Are Not A Stranger Here?
Author: Haslett, Adam
ISBN: 9780099443643
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 03 Nov 2003
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
'Enormously moving - Haslett's writing is harrowing, morbidly funny and deeply erotic' Independent on Sunday
In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. An ageing inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. An orphaned boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a rest home, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn, teenage volunteer. With Checkovian restraint and compassion, conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not A Stranger Here is a triumph.
ISBN: 9780099443643
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 03 Nov 2003
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
'Enormously moving - Haslett's writing is harrowing, morbidly funny and deeply erotic' Independent on Sunday
In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. An ageing inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. An orphaned boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a rest home, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn, teenage volunteer. With Checkovian restraint and compassion, conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not A Stranger Here is a triumph.
