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It's Fine By Me
  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099548386
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $19.99

It's Fine By Me

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1 Nov 2012
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3 Nov 2011
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The brilliant and moving story of a young man's life from the author of the prizewinning Out Stealing Horses.

Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend – but there are some things Audun won’t talk about. Stories about his family, the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling.

A beautiful and disquieting coming-of-age story from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099548386
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Per Petterson

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been published in fifty languages and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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Also by Per Petterson

Men in My Situation
Echoland
I Refuse
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes
I Curse the River of Time
To Siberia
In The Wake
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Praise for It's Fine By Me

A movingly observed story about growing up

The Times

Beautifully written and understatedly uplifting, It's Fine By Me is an essential read

Stylist

Beguiling and beautiful… a gripping and subtle coming-of-age story, ripe with melancholy… graceful and moving

Daily Telegraph

A brilliantly vivid piece of storytelling

The Scotsman

Executed with not only a magical attention to detail but also with heart-swelling affection... page after page of clear, glitchless and truthful writing

Financial Times

Atmospheric coming-of-age tale by one of Norway’s most renowned writers

Observer

Melancholic

Emma Hagestadt, Independent

The detail is perfect; the emotions are raw and beautifully conveyed

William Leith, Evening Standard

Petterson’s novel is a compelling study… Petterson’s beautifully spare prose subtly captures the effort that comes with this seeming inaction, this lack of fight, providing us with a lens through which we come to see Audun’s grim inertia as a paralyzing struggle to forget the past and get on with the task of living

Observer

Beautifully crafted but undeniably bleak; its spare prose, mournfully succinct characterisation and disorientating chronology deliver an edgy read

James Urquhart, Financial Times
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