Emily Fridlund

History of Wolves

Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize

Buch

Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abandoned commune cabins in northern Minnesota and are hanging on to the last vestiges of a faded counter-culture world. The kids at school call her 'Freak', or 'Commie'. She is an outsider in all things. Her understanding of the world comes from her observations at school, where her teacher is accused of possessing child pornography, and from watching the seemingly ordinary life of a family she babysits for. Yet while the accusation against the teacher is perhaps more innocent than it seemed at first, the ordinary family turns out to be more complicated. As Linda insinuates her way in… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4746-0295-2
EAN: 9781474602952
Produktnummer: 20265772
Verlag: Orion
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.3 cm 317 g
Gewicht: 317

Über den Autor

Emily Fridlund grew up in Minnesota. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Her collection of stories, CATAPULT, was chosen by Ben Marcus for the Mary McCarthy Prize. She lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York. HISTORY OF WOLVES is her first novel.