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Jill Owens: IMG The Powells.com Interview with Margaret Atwood

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margaretatwoodIn her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood describes a future after humanity had been almost entirely wiped out by a plague. Jimmy, aka Snowman, lives... Continue »
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Snow Angels

by Stewart O'Nan

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Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974, experiencing the confusing pangs of adolescence and the pain of his parents' divorce. His world is shattered further by the sudden and violent death of Annie Marchand, his beloved former baby-sitter. Narrated by the adult Arthur, who continues to be haunted by memories, the story of a young man's unraveling family and the circumstances leading up to Annie's death forms the backdrop for an intimate tale of the price of love and belonging, told in a spare, translucent, and unexpectedly tender voice.

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"A thriller of the heart, at once suspenseful and emotionally absorbing." Newsday

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"Beautiful and harrowing....An exquisite double helix, each of its two strands the tale of an unraveling family, curving in tenuous but essential relation to the other." Elle

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"Stunning....A truthful and deeply sad picture of the American hinterland, which has lost religion and maybe also lost its capacity for sustained love....Wonderfully effective...O' Nan sees with a vengeance." The New York Times Book Review

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"Haunting...a whole that's much more than the sum of its parts....Moving, beautifully constructed, morally complex." The Washington Post Book World

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"Shines with a cold, stark light....Strangely beautiful." Los Angeles Times

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Narrated by a man haunted by the memories of a painful childhood and the death of a love one, forming an intimate tale of the price of love and belonging.
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Stewart O'Nan is the award-winning author of A Prayer for the Dying, Snow Angels, A World Away and, most recently, Wish You Were Here. Granta named him one of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Avon, Connecticut.
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ISBN:
9780312422769
Author:
O'Nan, Stewart
Publisher:
Picador USA
Subject:
General
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Teenage boys
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Pennsylvania
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General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
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Publication Date:
October 2003
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Paperback
Grade Level:
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Language:
English
Pages:
320
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