Title:
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BOYHOOD ISLAND
MY STRUGGLE BOOK 3 |
By: |
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett (Trans) |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
List price:
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1448155843 |
ISBN 13: |
9781448155842 |
Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
20 March, 2014 |
Series: |
Knausgaard |
Pages: |
496 |
Translated from: |
Norwegian |
Description: |
For author, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be. |
Synopsis: |
`Rare and Ruthless... Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' Guardian Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
Prizes: |
Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 (UK) |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |