Songs for the Missing: A Novel

Stewart O'Nan

ISBN 10: 067002032X / ISBN 13: 9780670020324

Published by Viking, 2008

About this Item

First Edition with the complete number line; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page; a fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy in as new, unread condition. Not price clipped, not remaindered, not ex-library. In archival protection. Songs for the Missing is an honest, heartfelt account of one family s attempt to find their child. With a soulful empathy for these ordinary heroes, O Nan draws us into the world of this small American town and allows us to feel a part of this family.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Songs for the Missing: A Novel
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067002032X
• ISBN 13: 9780670020324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns,Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community?s efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of a daughter whose return becomes increasingly unlikely. Stark and honest, this is an intimate account of what happens behind the headlines of a very American tragedy.

About the Author

Stewart OÂ’Nan is the author of eleven novels, most recently Last Night at the Lobster, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a story collection, and two works of nonfiction.