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**A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book of the Year; An O magazine Book to Pick Up; A USA Today Notable Book; An Amazon.com Best Book of the Month; A People Best New Book**
Garnering rave reviews from around the world, History of Wolves is novelist Emily Fridlund’s darkly shimmering debut
“Literary fiction’s newest golden girl.” —National Post
Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as the last vestige of a lost counterculture world. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and the new history teacher, Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong.
And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging come expectations and secrets she doesn’t understand. Over the course of a summer, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born, Linda confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people do—and fail to do—for the people they love.
A “compelling portrait of a troubled adolescent trying to find her way in a new and frightening world” (People), Emily Fridlund’s propulsive and gorgeously written History of Wolves introduces a new writer of enormous range and talent.
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“So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!” (Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake)
“[A] stellar debut. . . . A sense of foreboding subtly permeates the story . . . [the] wordsmithing is fantastic. . . . Fridlund has elegantly crafted a striking protagonist whose dark leanings cap off the tragedy at the heart of this book, which is moving and disturbing.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
“Fridlund is an assured writer. . . . the sharp consequences for [the novel’s] characters make it singe and sing—a literary tour de force.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))
“The writing is beautiful . . . a triumph of tone and attitude. Lovers of character-driven literary fiction will embrace this.” (Booklist (starred review))
“As exquisite a first novel as I’ve ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful.” (T.C. Boyle, author of The Harder They Come)
“Emily Fridlund’s language is generous and precise, her story grief-tempered and forcefully moving. History of Wolves is the loneliest thing I’ve read in years, and it’s gorgeous. These are haunted pages.” (Leif Enger, author of Peace Like A River)
“Lyrical and beautiful. Its otherworldly winter escapism is just right for mid-season stir crazy. . . . Supple fiction formed in able hands, History of Wolves delivers Emily Fridlund to the doorstep of literature’s beau monde; I think she’ll find a good home there.” (National Post)
“History of Wolves is as beautiful and as icy as the Minnesota woods where it’s set, and with her first book, Fridlund has already proven herself to be a singular talent.” (NPR)
“A novel of ideas that reads like smart pulp, a page-turner of craft and calibration.” (New York Times Book Review)
“Mysteries multiply, and prose and plot braid together into an indelible story of fascination and dread.” (Vulture)
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“[A] stellar debut. . . . A sense of foreboding subtly permeates the story . . . [the] wordsmithing is fantastic. . . . Fridlund has elegantly crafted a striking protagonist whose dark leanings cap off the tragedy at the heart of this book, which is moving and disturbing.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
“Fridlund is an assured writer. . . . the sharp consequences for [the novel’s] characters make it singe and sing—a literary tour de force.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))
“The writing is beautiful . . . a triumph of tone and attitude. Lovers of character-driven literary fiction will embrace this.” (Booklist (starred review))
“As exquisite a first novel as I’ve ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful.” (T.C. Boyle, author of The Harder They Come)
“Emily Fridlund’s language is generous and precise, her story grief-tempered and forcefully moving. History of Wolves is the loneliest thing I’ve read in years, and it’s gorgeous. These are haunted pages.” (Leif Enger, author of Peace Like A River)
“Lyrical and beautiful. Its otherworldly winter escapism is just right for mid-season stir crazy. . . . Supple fiction formed in able hands, History of Wolves delivers Emily Fridlund to the doorstep of literature’s beau monde; I think she’ll find a good home there.” (National Post)
“History of Wolves is as beautiful and as icy as the Minnesota woods where it’s set, and with her first book, Fridlund has already proven herself to be a singular talent.” (NPR)
“A novel of ideas that reads like smart pulp, a page-turner of craft and calibration.” (New York Times Book Review)
“Mysteries multiply, and prose and plot braid together into an indelible story of fascination and dread.” (Vulture)
EMILY FRIDLUND’s fiction has appeared in a variety of journals. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California. Fridlund’s collection of stories, Catapult, was a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award for Fiction and the Tartt First Fiction Award. It won the Mary McCarthy Prize and will be published in 2017. The opening chapter of History of Wolves was published in the Southwest Review and won the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction. She grew up in Minnesota and currently resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
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- EditoreHarperCollins Publishers
- Data di pubblicazione2017
- ISBN 10 1443453757
- ISBN 13 9781443453752
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine288
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Descrizione libro Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Other than light black mark on upper text block this is a clean and unmarked copy- So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!Aimee Bender Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul. It seems that her life finally has purpose but with this new sense of belonging she is also drawn into secrets she doesnt understand. Over the course of a few days, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born, Linda confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people doand fail to dofor the people they love. Winner of the McGinnis-Ritchie award for its first chapter, Emily Fridlunds propulsive and gorgeously written History of Wolves introduces a new writer of enormous range and talent. Codice articolo 009556
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