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We the Animals
Justin Torres
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Description for We the Animals
Paperback. A spellbinding debut novel; three brothers come of age in a poverty stricken town in upstate New York Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108.
Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding 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. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. 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 ... Read more
Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding 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. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847083968
SKU
V9781847083968
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About Justin Torres
JUSTIN TORRES was born in 1980 and grew up in upstate New York. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Reviews for We the Animals
A heart-rending coming of age novel - intense, poised and pummelling. Almost pitch-perfect in its nerve-exposed vulnerability
Helen Davies
Sunday Times
Torres's lyrical treatment of transgression can be shocking... [At] times his prose has the intensity of poetry
Peter Carty
Independent
A strobe light of a story, its flash set on slow, producing before ... Read more
Helen Davies
Sunday Times
Torres's lyrical treatment of transgression can be shocking... [At] times his prose has the intensity of poetry
Peter Carty
Independent
A strobe light of a story, its flash set on slow, producing before ... Read more