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It's Fine By Me

Per Petterson Don Bartlett

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English
Arrow
01 November 2012
The brilliant and moving story of a young man's life from the author of the prizewinning Out Stealing Horses.

Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend - but there are some things Audun won't talk about. Stories about his family, the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling.

A beautiful and disquieting coming-of-age story from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   149g
ISBN:   9780099548386
ISBN 10:   0099548380
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer, a bookseller, a writer and a translator until he made his literary debut in 1987 with the short story collection Ashes in my Mouth, Sand in my Shoes, which was widely acclaimed by critics. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into forty-nine languages so far and won many prizes.

Reviews for It's Fine By Me

Beautifully written and understatedly uplifting, It's Fine By Me is an essential read Stylist Beguiling and beautiful. a gripping and subtle coming-of-age story, ripe with melancholy. graceful and moving Daily Telegraph 'Executed with not only a magical attention to detail but also with heart-swelling affection... page after page of clear, glitchless and truthful writing' Financial Times


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