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The Wilderness
Samantha Harvey
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Description for The Wilderness
Paperback. 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? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
**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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099526537
SKU
V9780099526537
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-50
About Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels Orbital, The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Orbital was the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, and her other work has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian ... Read more
Reviews for The Wilderness
Brave and intelligent...a mesmerising work
Independent
A stunning composition of human fragility and intensity
Guardian
An extraordinary dramatisation of a mind in the process of disintegration ... Brilliant - read it now, before it scoops up all the prizes
The Times
Touches a resounding chord of melancholy. The author, whose debut this is, is ... Read more
Independent
A stunning composition of human fragility and intensity
Guardian
An extraordinary dramatisation of a mind in the process of disintegration ... Brilliant - read it now, before it scoops up all the prizes
The Times
Touches a resounding chord of melancholy. The author, whose debut this is, is ... Read more