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See How Small

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Informationen zum Autor Scott Blackwood is the author of two previous books of fiction,  In the Shadow of Our House  and  We Agreed to Meet Just Here , and the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award. He's also the Grammy Award-nominated author of  The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records , a two-volume narrative about American's greatest "race record" label and the rise of early jazz and blues. Blackwood resided in Austin, Texas, for many years and now lives in Chicago. Klappentext A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose 'that's as fine as any being written by an American author today.' One autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls behind the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. SEE HOW SMALL tells the stories of the survivors--family, witnesses, and suspects--who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Zusammenfassung A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose "that's as fine as any being written by an American author today" (Ben Fountain). One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. See How Small tells the stories of the survivors -- family, witnesses, and suspects -- who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world, human connection tenuous. Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths are the three girls. They watch over the town and make occasional visitations, trying to connect with and prod to life those they left behind. "See how small a thing it is that keeps us apart," they say. A master of compression and lyrical precision, Scott Blackwood has surpassed himself with this haunting, beautiful, and enormously powerful new novel. ...

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Authors Scott Blackwood
Publisher Back Bay Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 09.09.2015
 
EAN 9780316373944
ISBN 978-0-316-37394-4
Series Little, Brown and Company
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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