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Snow Angels: A Novel

by Stewart O'Nan

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Publisher Comments:

Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale.

Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974. Enduring the pain of his parents' divorce, his world is shattered when his beloved former babysitter, Annie, falls victim to a tragic series of events. The interlinking stories of Arthur's unraveling family, and of Annie's fate, form the backdrop of this intimate tale about the price of love and belonging, told in a spare, translucent, and unexpectedly tender voice.

Review:

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

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"[An] assured and affecting first novel....The novel's elegiac tone is perfectly controlled, and angst and the lingo of male adolescence are rendered with wry fidelity." Publishers Weekly

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"[A] beautifully composed and deeply felt tale of domestic tragedy....O'Nan tells this sorrowful tale without a shred of sensationalism, ushering us quietly into the squeezed hearts of his characters, respectful of their traumas and awed by how limited our choices in life truly are." Booklist

Review:

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

Review:

"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

Review:

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

Review:

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

Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed fiction includes The Names of the Dead, A World Away, A Prayer for the Dying, and his most recent novel, Last Night at the Lobster. With Stephen King, he is the author of the bestselling Faithful. Granta named him one of America's Best Young Novelists. He lives in Connecticut.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312427696
Subtitle:
A Novel
Author:
O'Nan, Stewart
Publisher:
Picador
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
FIC045000
Subject:
Thrillers
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Teenage boys
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Subject:
Pennsylvania
Subject:
Family life
Subject:
Literary
Copyright:
2008
Edition Number:
Movie Tie-in ed.
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
February 5, 2008
Binding:
Electronic book text in proprietary or open standard format
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.746 in
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Product details 336 pages Picador - English 9780312427696 Reviews:
"Review" by , "A thriller of the heart, at once suspenseful and emotionally absorbing."
"Review" by , "[An] assured and affecting first novel....The novel's elegiac tone is perfectly controlled, and angst and the lingo of male adolescence are rendered with wry fidelity."
"Review" by , "[A] beautifully composed and deeply felt tale of domestic tragedy....O'Nan tells this sorrowful tale without a shred of sensationalism, ushering us quietly into the squeezed hearts of his characters, respectful of their traumas and awed by how limited our choices in life truly are."
"Review" by , "Beautiful and harrowing....An exquisite double helix, each of its two strands a tale of an unraveling family, curving in tenuous but essential relation to the other."
"Review" by , "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."
"Review" by , "Haunting...a whole that's much more than the sum of its parts....Moving, beautifully constructed, morally complex."
"Review" by , "Shines with a cold, stark light....Strangely beautiful."
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