Out of Breath
$27.92
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2009
Summary
A story told by a young girl featuring a cast of children left to make their own world.
Flynn is a thirteen-year-old girl caught between her violent, out-of-control brother, Sam, and her mother, who is struggling to cope. And then, one impossibly hot night, a strange half-feral boy called Alex turns up at the bottom of Flynn’s garden. Alex is one of three runaways; there’s also Diana, who has just had a baby, and Mouse, who is only six and already an accomplished arsonist.
Wit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099516163 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099516160 |
| Author: | Julie Myerson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 128mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A sweetly corrupt exploration of the childhood fantasy of running away… Myerson is a beautiful conjurer of subtly disturbing atmospheres…haunting
A sweetly corrupt exploration of the childhood fantasy of running away… Myerson is a beautiful conjurer of subtly disturbing atmospheres…haunting – Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph *
A mythical rite-of-passage novel… mysterious and multi-layered * Independent *
Compulsively readable and richly inventive… bittersweet, authentic and loveable * Guardian *
Myerson is a surefooted guide along the wobbly line that separates the real from the surreal … Myerson captures [adolescence] beautifully in Flynn’s compelling voice. The opening of the novel is crisp and immediate, the prose simple and direct …More than just a coming-of-age story, Out of Breath is a timely reminder about the importance of not growing up too quickly * New Statesman *
A truly original read, transcending many of the usual boundaries found in fiction * Scotland on Sunday *
Its playful, imaginative charge is constantly undercut by the subcutaneous presence of psychological damage and the darkness that emerges as innocence gives way to experience * Metro *
A brilliant, deeply unsettling thriller which promises to be among the best reads of this year * Daily Mail *
A weird, beautiful scary slice of British magic realism * Herald *
Myerson is a master of suggestion and builds up the suspense layer by layer * Irish Times *
Fans of Julie Myerson will adore this, the latest edition to Myerson’s very own sub-genre within the broader class of ‘novels of the uncanny’ * Financial Times *
Julie Myerson
Julie Myerson is the author of Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House and nine novels, including the best-selling Something Might Happen, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Observer noted that she “has a talent for making the unthinkable readable. The results are riveting.”
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