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It's Fine by Me
Per Petterson
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Description for It's Fine by Me
Paperback. Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend - but there are some things Audun won't talk about. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend – but there are some things Audun won’t talk about. Stories about his family, the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling.
A beautiful and disquieting coming-of-age story from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099548386
SKU
V9780099548386
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Ref
99-1
About Per Petterson
Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer, a bookseller, a writer and a translator until he made his literary debut in 1987 with the short story collection Ashes in my Mouth, Sand in my Shoes, which was widely acclaimed by critics. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the ... Read more
Reviews for It's Fine by Me
· an intriguing story featuring all of the Petterson quirks — charm, melancholy, loneliness, the rifts between parents and children, the bonds between siblings and friends
Reading Matters
Beautifully written and understatedly uplifting, It's Fine By Me is an essential read
Stylist
Beguiling and beautiful… a gripping and ... Read more
Reading Matters
Beautifully written and understatedly uplifting, It's Fine By Me is an essential read
Stylist
Beguiling and beautiful… a gripping and ... Read more