You Are Not A Stranger Here? - Softcover

Haslett, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099443643 ISBN 13: 9780099443643

Publisher: Vintage, 2003

Synopsis

In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. An ageing inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. An orphaned boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a rest home, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn, teenage volunteer. With Checkovian restraint and compassion, conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not A Stranger Here is a triumph.

About this title

Product Description:

Nine stories make up Haslett's first collection. They are set in Los Angeles, the Midwest, New England and England, but each summons its own distinctive world. The characters include a widower, a young couple, middle-aged siblings and an orphaned boy who finds solace in a classmate's violence.

Review:

"Adam Haslett is a wonderful rarity. You're likely not only to love his stories but to feel stronger for having read them" (Jonathan Franzen, author of 'The Corrections')

"Adam Haslett possesses the rare ability to combine powerful narrative with sensitive and perceptive observations of people and places. You Are Not a Stranger Here is a brilliant beginning to a literary career" (Barry Unsworth)

"Adam Haslett's tone is one of delicate, understated heartache... He never lets the reader forget that he is shining an unflinching light on those types of human suffering that cannot be cured, only endured" (Sunday Times)

"Enormously moving... Haslett's writing is harrowing, morbidly funny and deeply erotic" (Independent on Sunday)

"Adam Haslett arrives from out of nowhere sounding like a master" (Jay McInerney)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099443643
• ISBN 13: 9780099443643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256