With boundless empathy and psychological precision, the award-winning author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny delivers a breathtaking vignette of a troubled young boy caught between the ghosts of his past and the enormous questions about his future.
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.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571377305
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 237 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm
Edition: Main
Shy takes place over a few hours of a troubled teenage boy as he reflects and tries to make convoluted sense of his past, present and future.
Wandering in the night, he thinks back to conversations and turning...
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Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy, I think this will be a great read for a book group.
Perhaps it will split the crowd? It is very different, as I read this, I hovered between loving it, to...
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If Porter is a guitarist, this is him riffing. Letting us know that he can really shred. You get this sensation when reading his books of sound in the mouth, in the ears, and on the page - you can hear a live... More
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