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A Crooked Tree

- A Novel
Af: Una Mannion Engelsk Paperback

A Crooked Tree

- A Novel
Af: Una Mannion Engelsk Paperback
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A haunting, suspenseful literary debut that combines a classic coming of age story with a portrait of a fractured American family dealing with the fallout of one summer evening gone terribly wrong.

“The night we left Ellen on the road, we drove up the mountain in silence.”

It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with The Field Guide to the Trees of North America, a gift her Irish immigrant father gave her before he died. She finds solace in “The Kingdom,” a stand of red oak and thick mountain laurel near her home in suburban Pennsylvania, where she can escape from her large and unruly family and share menthol cigarettes and lukewarm beers with her best friend.

One night, while driving home, Libby’s mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby’s little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.

A Crooked Tree is a surprising, indelible novel, both a poignant portrayal of an unmoored childhood giving way to adolescence, and a gripping tale about the unexpected reverberations of one rash act.

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A haunting, suspenseful literary debut that combines a classic coming of age story with a portrait of a fractured American family dealing with the fallout of one summer evening gone terribly wrong.

“The night we left Ellen on the road, we drove up the mountain in silence.”

It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with The Field Guide to the Trees of North America, a gift her Irish immigrant father gave her before he died. She finds solace in “The Kingdom,” a stand of red oak and thick mountain laurel near her home in suburban Pennsylvania, where she can escape from her large and unruly family and share menthol cigarettes and lukewarm beers with her best friend.

One night, while driving home, Libby’s mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby’s little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.

A Crooked Tree is a surprising, indelible novel, both a poignant portrayal of an unmoored childhood giving way to adolescence, and a gripping tale about the unexpected reverberations of one rash act.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780063049833
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 006304983X
Udg. Dato: 4 jan 2022
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 203mm
Højde: 134mm
Forlag: HarperCollins
Oplagsdato: 4 jan 2022
Forfatter(e): Una Mannion
Forfatter(e) Una Mannion


Kategori United States of America, USA


ISBN-13 9780063049833


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 27mm


Bredde 203mm


Højde 134mm


Udg. Dato 4 jan 2022


Oplagsdato 4 jan 2022


Forlag HarperCollins

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