History of Wolves: Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: Emily Fridlund - Softcover

Fridlund, Emily

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9781474602952: History of Wolves: Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: Emily Fridlund

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ISBN 10: 1474602959 ISBN 13: 9781474602952

Publisher: Orion Books Ltd, 2017

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

How far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on.

So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into their orbit. She begins to babysit Paul and feels welcome, that she finally has a place to belong.

Yet something isn't right. Drawn into secrets she doesn't understand, Linda must make a choice. But how can a girl with no real knowledge of the world understand what the consequences will be?

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Review:

Beautifully written (LITERARY REVIEW)

Compelling ... History of Wolves stands out. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

think Winter's Bone with less crime and more lyricism.. Fridlund is a fine writer and her work is cut through with moments of sparse beauty. (FINANCIAL TIMES)

one of the most intelligent and poetic novels of the year (NEW STATESMAN)

Fridlund's writing is vivid: her natural descriptions elicit a superb sense of place (DAILY MAIL)

this is a top-notch thriller: suspicion drips like icicles in the thaw (THE TIMES)

Fridlund is a fine writer and her work is cut through with moments of sparse beauty. (FINANCIAL TIMES)

Haunting and compelling (i NEWSPAPER)

Reminds me of Curtis Sittenfeld...so original, a beautiful literary work" (Viv Groskop); "A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite" (Louise Doughty) (BBC RADIO 4: SATURDAY REVIEW)

The chilling plot is only part of the mesmerising power of this assured and striking debut from this American novelist (PRESS ASSOCIATION)

From the Author:

Emily Fridlund grew up in the Twin Cities and received her MFA in fiction from Washington University in Saint Louis. In 2014, she completed her PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. Her short fiction is forthcoming or has appeared in ZYZZYVA,Boston Review, Southwest Review, FiveChapters, New Orleans Review, Sou'wester, and The Portland Review, among other journals. Emily is currently revising her first novel, History of Wolves, which was supported by a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for feminist projects. Along with her novel, Emily's graduate research was a study of simultaneity in modernist and contemporary narrative called The Usual Things in Unusual Places.

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