The Boy in the Field

The Boy in the Field
Margot Livesey
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Paperback
h196 x 128mm - 272pg
27 May 2021 UK
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9781529339147
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' A searingly intelligent writer at the height of her powers' Jennifer Egan' Every novel of Margot Livesey' s is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery' Alice SeboldOne September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy' s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim' s brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents' marriage. Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart. To experience the world as rendered by Margot Livesey is a singular, extraordinary delight' Claire Lombardo' A deceptively simple story that explores the aftermath of a moment of violence, The Boy in the Field amazed me with its insight, and the subtlety of Livesey' s beautiful, almost dreamlike prose' Kevin Wilson
Margot Livesey is a searingly intelligent writer at the height of her powersEvery novel of Margot Livesey' s is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mysteryMargot Livesey should be better known. . . . [She] writes as well as anyone and is clearly steeped in the literary canon. . . . She' s a patient builder of complex characters who are often brought face to face with uncomfortable truths about themselves. - Wall Street JournalLivesey knows her way around human desire and disappointment. - New York TimesFamily bonds are fraught, fragile, yet ultimately enduring in Livesey' s nuanced account of the siblings' separate but conjoined odysseys . . . Livesey demonstrates . . . respect for the mysteries of the human heart . . . Quietly yet powerfully affecting. - Kirkus (starred)I loved every single sentence of The Boy in the Field. This novel is so intricately woven, its world so vibrantly built, its characters so beautifully and empathically wrought. To experience the world as rendered by Margot Livesey is a singular, extraordinary delight. Margot Livesey has the unique ability to find the hidden darkness beneath the surface of our lives, no matter how deeply buried. A deceptively simple story that explores the aftermath of a moment of violence, The Boy in the Field amazed me with its insight, and the subtlety of Livesey' s beautiful, almost dreamlike prose. Every character rings true; every observation and reaction feels real. Braiding three separate views of the same incident, Livesey weaves a masterful tapestry of emotion and action focused on the indelible impact of random events - Booklist (starred review)
Margot Livesey is a New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic. She is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation and her novel The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529339147
Published: 27 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 272

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