Neverhome

A brilliant and breathtaking blaze of a novel – Clare Clark * Guardian *A spare, beautiful novel, so deeply about America and the language of America that its sentences seem to rise up from the earth itself. Laird Hunt had me under his spell from the first word of Neverhome to the last. Magnificent – Paul AusterNeverhome is a wondrous feat. Few novels written in English approach its linguistic verve – Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *The Civil War has given us so many great literary works that I couldn’t have imagined a new fictional approach that was both stunningly original and yet utterly natural, even inevitable. But this is just what Laird Hunt brilliantly delivers in his new novel. The key is his central character: in her voice, her personality, her yearning, she deeply touches our shared and enduring humanity. Neverhome is masterful work by one of our finest writers – Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange MountainWith nothing but the simple language of well-worn words, Mr Hunt has conjured up a wholly original heroine with an utterly fresh voice… A book that deserves a wider readership. * The Economist *Hunt brings an especially bittersweet and lyrical tone to this forgotten part of Civil War history and gives to several hundred women who did indeed make the momentous decision to fight….An amazing book * Library Journal *An exquisitely wrought vision of the terrible ravages of war - on the land, on the human body, and on the mind * Booklist *This is a slim and unshowy story of devastating power, an epic poem in its own vernacular, an upside-down Odyssey at once particular and hauntingly universal. Quietly, relentlessly, without wasting a word, it works its way under the skin and into the marrow of the bones… Hunt has coaxed a brilliant and breathtaking blaze of a novel. – Clare Clark * Guardian *Staggering… he reinvigorates the American language with a poetic urgency equal to Toni Morrison’s Beloved. The story is strong, the prose superbly wrought. – Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *A beguiling and evocative story about love and loss, duty and deceit… Neverhome took me on a journey so thoroughly engrossed that there were times the pages seemed to turn themselves. – Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds

Laird Hunt is the author of six novels, a collection of stories and two translations. Kind One was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and his last novel, Neverhome, won the Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine and The Bridge Prize and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina tranger. He teaches in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Denver, where he edits the Denver Quarterly. He and his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, live in Boulder, Colorado, with their daughter, Eva Grace.

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