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Porter Max - Shy A Novel - Hardcover
Porter Max - Shy A Novel - Hardcover
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Description: A novel about guilt rage imagination and boyhood about being lost in the dark and learning you re not alone This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn t hurt yourself like that. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers his parents the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. Got your special meds nutcase? He is escaping Last Chance a home for very disturbed young men and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors his past and the heavy question of his future. The night is huge and it hurts. In Shy Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura lyric music - besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation. Edit Build
Title: Shy A Novel
Author(s): Porter Max
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644452295
Pages: 136 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/2/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A novel about guilt rage imagination and boyhood about being lost in the dark and learning you re not alone This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn t hurt yourself like that. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers his parents the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. Got your special meds nutcase? He is escaping Last Chance a home for very disturbed young men and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors his past and the heavy question of his future. The night is huge and it hurts. In Shy Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura lyric music - besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation. Edit Build
Title: Shy A Novel
Author(s): Porter Max
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644452295
Pages: 136 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/2/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
