It's Fine By Me
Per Petterson author Don Bartlett translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Nov '12
£12.99
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The brilliant and moving story of a young man's life from the author of the prizewinning Out Stealing Horses.
Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend - but there are some things Audun won't talk about.
Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend – but there are some things Audun won’t talk about. Stories about his family, the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling.
A beautiful and disquieting coming-of-age story from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
· an intriguing story featuring all of the Petterson quirks — charm, melancholy, loneliness, the rifts between parents and children, the bonds between siblings and friends * Reading Matters *
Beautifully written and understatedly uplifting, It's Fine By Me is an essential read * Stylist *
Beguiling and beautiful… a gripping and subtle coming-of-age story, ripe with melancholy… graceful and moving * Daily Telegraph *
Executed with not only a magical attention to detail but also with heart-swelling affection... page after page of clear, glitchless and truthful writing * Financial Times *
A movingly observed story about growing up * The Times *
ISBN: 9780099548386
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: 149g
208 pages