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History of Wolves: Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Emily Fridlund
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'One of the most poetic novels of the year' NEW STATESMAN How far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into ... Read more
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'One of the most poetic novels of the year' NEW STATESMAN How far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474602945
SKU
V9781474602945
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About Emily Fridlund
Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Her collection of stories, Catapult, was chosen by Ben Marcus for the Mary McCarthy Prize. She lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York. History of Wolves is her ... Read more
Reviews for History of Wolves: Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Every page in this first novel echoes with grief and loneliness, yet there's a great beauty to it.
COUNTRY LIFE
Life offers Linda two simultaneous chances to fit in, although both, as we know from the start, go terribly wrong
GUARDIAN
The chilling plot is only part of the mesmerising power of this assured ... Read more
COUNTRY LIFE
Life offers Linda two simultaneous chances to fit in, although both, as we know from the start, go terribly wrong
GUARDIAN
The chilling plot is only part of the mesmerising power of this assured ... Read more