Per Petterson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

It's 1989 and "three monumental events twine around one another in Arvid Jansen's penumbral soul. His fifteen-year marriage is dissolving, his mother is dying of cancer, and the Berlin Wall is tumbling down. The parallels are obvious--worlds are ending, internally and externally--but the analogies Petterson draws among these dramatic endings are not....I Curse the River of Time is a little like the starker reaches of the West, a little like the stonier shores of Maine, a little like Edward Hopper, a little like Raymond Carver....There is a quality that I can only call charm, or something like charm, to Petterson's essentially dark and lonely sensibility....It exerts a gravitational pull on the reader" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review).

I Curse the River of Time

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

A Novel

Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of Communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance. By the award-winning author of Out Stealing Horses.

Category - Fiction / Drama

Format - Paperback

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 7 months ago

Views - 8

Ships From - Pennsylvania

Est. Publication Date - Aug 2011

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