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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Thorndike Pr
Publication date
August 24, 2016
Pages
515
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781410492296
ISBN-10
141049229X
Dimensions
0 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Original list price
$31.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?
When Margaret's fiance, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. "Imagine Me Gone "is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence.
Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family.
With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives.
"
When Margaret's fiance, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. "Imagine Me Gone "is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings -- the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec -- struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence.
Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family.
With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives.
"
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Hardcover
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Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (August 24, 2016)
9781410492296 | details & prices | 515 pages | List price $31.99
About: From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?
About: From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?
from Little Brown & Co (May 3, 2016)
9780316261357 | details & prices | 356 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $26.00
Paperback
from Little Brown & Co (May 3, 2016)
9780316395038 | details & prices | List price $15.99
CD/Spoken Word
Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (May 3, 2016)
9781478941446 | details & prices | List price $35.00
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