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Tussing, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060815353 ISBN 13: 9780060815356

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2016

Synopsis

In Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels as reined in as the mighty Ohio, a river confined by high floodwalls protecting his small Southern hometown. But all boundaries vanish when Thomas experiences first love with Alice, his new history teacher, a woman eight years his senior--and when he meets Shiloh, a misfit vagabond and anarchist who becomes his new role model. Fleeing to rural Vermont, this unlikely trio boldly pursues freedom, intimacy, and seclusion, unfettered by commitments and rules. But a life apart from the world does not ensure a life apart from the past--and for one of them, the past that emerges will threaten tragedy.

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Review:

"Filled with surprise, recklessness, melancholy, headlong romance, and hilarity. Justin Tussing is the real thing. It doesn't happen that often."--Ron Hansen, author of MARIETTE IN ECSTASY and ATTICUS, National Book Award Finalist

"A self-assured debut that lovingly depicts how the past never stops revisiting us, even if we can't revisit it."--Portland Oregonian

"A significant literary feat... Announces the arrival of a talented young voice on the contemporary fiction scene."--Boston Sunday Globe

"It is very rare to find a novel so lovingly, deliberately and perfectly written . . . Read it. Now."--Salon

"One bright book of exuberant American life . . . Tussing has a real gift."--New York Times Book Review

"[A] lovely novel . . . Tussing is a witty, affecting writer."--Washington Post Book World

"A richly complicated and very wonderful novel . . . Ambitious and mesmerizing."--Newsday

"A strong work... Tussing's take on the irrevocability of adolescent whim and heady self-determination is chillingly real."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Tussing is a fine writer with a flair for imagery, and he's crafted a melancholy, resonant story."--Boston magazine

"Plaintive and powerful imagery... Breathtaking... A hauntingly atmospheric ode to love's enigmatic and labyrinthine nature."--Booklist

About the Author:

Justin Tussing's short fiction has appeared in several publications, including The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, and Third Coast. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and he lives in Portland, Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0060815353
• ISBN 13: 9780060815356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370