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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 839.82374 EAN: 9781597227742 Format: Large Print ISBN: 1597227749 Label: Wheeler Publishing Manufacturer: Wheeler Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 337 Publication Date: July 18, 2008 Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Studio: Wheeler Publishing Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events — the accidental death of a child, his best friend’s feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father’s decision to leave the family for another woman — will change his life forever. An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond bruised and puzzled by his friend Jon’s sudden breakdown. The tragedy that lies behind this scene becomes the catalyst for the two boys’ families to gradually fall apart. As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 brings the painful memories of that year flooding back, and will leave Trond even more convinced of his decision to end his days alone. Per Petterson, defeated eight finalists, including Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Out Stealing Horses. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - "Everything merges into a single pulse"There are many lessons in this book. For instance, whether it is intentional or not, Per Petterson has captured the rhythm, synergy, and energy that results from true teamwork. "We started in the morning just after seven and kept on until evening when we fell into bed and slept like the dead until we woke with the light and went at it again. For a time it looked as if we would never get to the end of those trees, because you can walk along a path and think that what is around you is ... Read More Rating: - I recommend and that is unusualThis is the second novel I have read in the past 8 months..the first was cellist of...... I found this hard to put down, i found myself thinking about it during the day. I found myself craving for time to read..when I was supposed to be working, driving, sleeping. i made myself put this book down because it is like chocolat, if you do not take the time to savor every morsel, you may as well not bother to eat it. This book is well worth savoring,,,,every chapter,,every sentence,,every ... Read More Rating:  - Loss and recovery; hurt and compensation; pain and survivalPer Petterson is a subtle and sensitive storyteller. In his novel Out Stealing Horses, he uses a post-modern shifting of time between a young man on the verge of adulthood and the same man more than 50 years later, with only vague hints as to life lived between that eventful adolescence and the onset of an old age seeking isolation. In the novel, Trond is seen as a young man becoming sexually aware, but also strongly attached to his best friend Jon and to his virile, action oriented father. ... Read More Rating: - A Book I Read SlowlyI don't read as much as I would like and that is usually my fault. Sometimes it is the book's fault for not pulling me in. This one had no trouble and the sparse prose is perfectly descriptive of the state of mind of both the man and boy in this novel. I felt I could almost smell the air in the book with barely a word to describe it, but somehow it comes across. The writing is simple yet leaves you touched by this character's experience. It is like wandering into a room you used to inhabit as a child. You ... Read More Rating:  - Gave up on page 52My expectations were high, but I couldn't talk myself into reading past page 52. It wasn't awful, just very flat for my taste. I wasn't particularily taken by the writing, as many have raved about, nor was I at all interested in the characters. Nothing here for me... 
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