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Imagine Me Gone

byAdam Haslett

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Michael is a bright kid: funny, likable, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the practical one, sensible, far tougher than her brothers. And then there's Alec, the most ambitious of the three but also the most sensitive, growing up in the shadow of his older siblings. The children are still living at home when their father walks into the woods alone one day and takes his own life. Years later, one of them will follow him.

Weaving together the voices of five family members, Adam Haslett imagines how a single tragedy can define many lives.

Beautiful, elegant, harrowing... This is a book that makes you eager, once more, for the complications of the world

Colum McCann

About Adam Haslett

Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Imagine Me Gone and Union Atlantic. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. His journalism on culture and politics has appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He lives in New York City.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241972885
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 256g
  • Price: £9.99
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