Imagine Me Gone
  • Published: 18 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241972885
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

Imagine Me Gone

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18 Apr 2017
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30 Jun 2016
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Hugely ambitious and richly human, the story of a family coping with the terrible legacy of tragedy

Michael is a bright kid: funny, likable, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the practical one, sensible, far tougher than her brothers. And then there's Alec, the most ambitious of the three but also the most sensitive, growing up in the shadow of his older siblings. The children are still living at home when their father walks into the woods alone one day and takes his own life. Years later, one of them will follow him.

Weaving together the voices of five family members, Adam Haslett imagines how a single tragedy can define many lives.
  • Published: 18 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241972885
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Adam Haslett

Adam Haslett is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and winner of a Michener Fellowship. He is the author of the highly acclaimed short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here?, published by Cape in 2002.

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Praise for Imagine Me Gone

Publisher's description. How much can any of us do to save those we love from themselves? What does the dark legacy of guilt do to a person, to a relationship, to a family? Achingly poignant and sharply witty, this portrait of a single tragedy rippling across many lives has all the makings of an American classic.

Penguin

Marvellously lucid and intelligent... [a] novel about family, love, and a despair that proves unbearable

Joy Williams

This beautiful, tragic novel will haunt you for the rest of your life... Michael is simply one of the finest characters I've ever come across... An extraordinary work of art

Paul Harding

Beautiful, elegant, harrowing... This is a book that makes you eager, once more, for the complications of the world

Colum McCann