The Wilderness
Author: Harvey, Samantha
ISBN: 9780099526537
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Apr 2010
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts
FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL
It's Jake's birthday. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's.
As the disease takes hold of him, the key events of his life shift, and what until recently seemed solid fact melts into surreal imaginings. Is his daughter alive or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what do they mean? Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage?
*cover may vary*
'Deeply original and captivating... a novel so full of urgent life that it rouses even as it terrifies' OLIVIA LAING, OBSERVER
'Brilliant... An extraordinary dramatization of a mind in the process of disintegration' THE TIMES
ISBN: 9780099526537
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Apr 2010
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts
FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL
It's Jake's birthday. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's.
As the disease takes hold of him, the key events of his life shift, and what until recently seemed solid fact melts into surreal imaginings. Is his daughter alive or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what do they mean? Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage?
*cover may vary*
'Deeply original and captivating... a novel so full of urgent life that it rouses even as it terrifies' OLIVIA LAING, OBSERVER
'Brilliant... An extraordinary dramatization of a mind in the process of disintegration' THE TIMES
