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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 839.82374
EAN: 9780312427085
ISBN: 0312427085
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Sales Rank: 312
Studio: Picador
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk. From the moment Trond sees a strange figure coming out of the dark behind his home, the reader is immersed in a decades-deep story of searching and loss, and in the precise, irresistible prose of a newly crowned master of fiction.
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- Beautiful Writing, but Where's the Story?I read this book because of the reviews it received here on amazon.com. I finished the book and have to say I enjoyed the writing, which is why I'm rating it three stars. But it left me scratching my head wondering why I finished. It was mostly boring. Perhaps I saw small glimpses where I thought I would get something more. But ultimately I didn't. If it was a longer book I'm pretty sure I would have put it down before completion.
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- Like Per Petterson? Try Knut Hamsun!Have you ever been lonely for a book the minute you finish it? That's the ultimate testament to a well-written, soul-touching work, and Per Petterson has one here with OUT STEALING HORSES. A coming-of-age novel wrapped up as a 67-year-old Norwegian man's reminiscence, the novel explores a father-son theme that doesn't reveal itself fully until the end. True, it's not a plot book. And true, it will appeal most to readers who love characterization and rich description. Nevertheless, if you love ... Read More
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- The story of our livesPer Petterson's quiet little novel about childhood's end and the retrospection of old age is masterful and profoundly moving. Other reviewers have suggested it is a story that has been told over and over, but, then, what deeply resonant story has not? In fact, it is in the retelling of our commonalities in new language, from a nuanced perspective, that we learn from each other and deepen our own self knowledge.
Out Stealing Horses is one of those books that seems to either open new rooms ... Read More
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- Deep and Thoughtful BookOut Stealing Horses
This compelling Norweigan novel describes the decisive events in the life of young Trond, and the ripples that those events have on his entire life. The book centers on a summer Trond spends in a cabin in remote Norway with his confident, practical, action-minded, secretive and ultimately, elusive, father. Trond later re-explores those events as an old man, moving to a cabin in another remote part of Norway, in an apparent attempt to recreate that magical summer. In ... Read More
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- Vague, Slow, Waiting for Something to HappenFor some reason I'm drawn to books about Scandinavia. Perhaps it's because I'm half Finnish, and I lived in Finland for a couple of years. So I opened this book with excitement, ready to be transported to Norway.
It started out quite interesting and had a nice, easy feel. I liked the point of view of the story being told by an "old" man--looking back on a significant time in his childhood.
But, for me, the book went nowhere. Yes, there is a melancholy and yes, it's an interesting ... Read More
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