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You Are Not a Stranger Here
Adam Haslett
Anchor
August 2003
On Sale: August 12, 2003
256 pages
ISBN: 0385720726
EAN: 9780385720724
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Fiction
In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of
stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered
by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The
impact is at once harrowing and thrilling.
An elderly
inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile
with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish
classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and
violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident
of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a
lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint
and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and
the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are
Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.
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