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PublisherPicador

ISBN-100312427085

ISBN-139780312427085

eBay Product ID (ePID)63187856

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Book TitleOut Stealing Horses

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Literary

Publication Year2008

GenreFiction

AuthorPer Petterson

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"Petterson's spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force." The New Yorker"A gripping account of such originality as to expand the reader's own experience of life." The New York Times Book Review "Out Stealing Horseslooks like a charming but modest chamber-piece. In retrospectand this is a novel that strikes deep and lingers longit feels more like some shattering literary symphony." The Independent "A . . . miracle of a book."The Irish Times, " "Out Stealing Horses "looks like a charming but modest chamber-piece. In retrospect-- and this is a novel that strikes deep and lingers long-- it feels more like some shattering literary symphony." -- *"The Independent "" A . . . miracle of a book." "-- The Irish Times", "Petterson's spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force." - The New Yorker "A gripping account of such originality as to expand the reader's own experience of life." - The New York Times Book Review " Out Stealing Horses looks like a charming but modest chamber-piece. In retrospect-and this is a novel that strikes deep and lingers long-it feels more like some shattering literary symphony." - The Independent "A . . . miracle of a book." -The Irish Times, "A gripping account of such originality as to expand the reader's own experience of life."--Thomas McGuane,The New York Times Book Review "ReadOut Stealing Horsesby Per Petterson. From the first terse sentences of this mesmerizing Norwegian novel about youth, memory, and, yes, horse stealing, you know you're in the hands of a master storyteller."--Newsweek "That's the effect of Per Petterson's award-winning novel: It hits you in the heart at close range."--Alan Cheuse, NPR'sAll Things Considered "A masterpiece of tough romance . . . One of my favorite two or three new novels to appear this year."--The New York Sun "Petterson's spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force. . . . Loss is conveyed with all the intensity of a boy's perception but acquires new resonance in the brooding consciousness of the older man."--The New Yorker "A marvelous book."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "Petterson fluently jumbles his chronology, sustaining mysteries within several subplots and vivifying evergreen ideas about determinism and the bonds of family. But the real trick is in the way everything finally, neatly converges into an emotional jolt."--Entertainment Weekly(Grade: A), Out Stealing Horses looks like a charming but modest chamber-piece. In retrospect--and this is a novel that strikes deep and lingers long--it feels more like some shattering literary symphony., "Petterson's spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force." -- The New Yorker "A gripping account of such originality as to expand the reader's own experience of life." -- The New York Times Book Review " Out Stealing Horses looks like a charming but modest chamber-piece. In retrospect--and this is a novel that strikes deep and lingers long--it feels more like some shattering literary symphony." -- The Independent "A . . . miracle of a book. " -- The Irish Times

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Dewey Decimal839.82374

SynopsisWe were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July. Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day--an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys. Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer., An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.

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