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We the Animals
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9780547844190
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Sep 11 2012
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award-winning author of Blackouts.
In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become.
A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver's or Jeffrey Eugenides's voice did when we first heard it.--The Washington Post
Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another.
From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful.
We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It's heartbreaking. It's beautiful. It resembles no other book I've read.--Michael Cunningham
A fiery ode to boyhood . . . A welterweight champ of a book.--NPR, Weekend Edition
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