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Growing up on the banks of the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels trapped by the constraints surrounding him, until he falls for his new history teacher, Alice, a woman eight years his senior who becomes his first love, and meets Shiloh, the anarchistic town misfit who becomes his role model. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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‘Tussing’s first novel is a small marvel of literary and emotional imagination...’ Daily Telegraph
‘Tussing...writes ravishingly...this joyous celebration of domestic life is his novel.’ Observer
‘[Tussing’s] style is delicately textured. Elegaic...description is part of a versatile range of registers that extends to laconic comedy.’ Wednesday Book, Independent
‘It reads as a mysterious, fearless and ultimately heartbreaking journey into adulthood.’ Works Magazine
‘Clearly a writer to watch.’ Metro
‘Be rewarded with a truly beautiful read.’ Big Issue
‘Justin Tussing possesses a remarkable sort of double vision: he sees what is strange and wondrous in the ordinary world, yet he also divines what is deeply human in the oddest of souls. His gifts are brought fully to bear in this beautiful, fearless novel, which explores the hazards of inventing a family and conjuring up a home. By turns comic and mysterious and wild, ultimately this is a heartbreaking book. Like all great elegiac novels, “The Best People in the World” makes us ache for what has been lost; we feel that we will never again find ourselves in such rare company, experiencing such luminous moments.’ Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of ‘Madeleine is Sleeping’
About the Author
Justin Tussing went to the University of New Hampshire and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he was a Teaching/Writing Fellow. He has received numerous fellowships and is a former director of the Iowa Young Writers Studio. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. This is his first novel.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0060815337
- ISBN 13 9780060815332
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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