You Came Back - Brossura

Coake, Christopher

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0670921254 ISBN 13: 9780670921256

Casa editrice: Viking, 2012

Riassunto

Praised by Nick Hornby and singled out by Granta magazine as one of the best young writers in America, Christopher Coake has written a heartstopping first novel about love and loss, grieving and belief. Mark Fife thinks he has got over the death of his son Brendan in an accident and the break-up of his marriage. He's in love again, he's successful and he believes he has grieved properly. But when a crazy woman claims Brendan's ghost is back in their old house, and his ex-wife wants so much to believe her, Mark finds himself desperately trying to cling on to his sanity. And desperately trying to discover where his future lies. You Came Back is a modern ghost story, a Lovely Bones for our time.

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L'autore

Christopher Coake's book of stories We're in Trouble (Penguin, 2005) won him a PEN Award and led to him being named by Granta as one of America's best young writers. A native of Ohio, where You Came Back is set, he now lives in Reno where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada.
This is his first novel.

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Thirty-something Mark Fife believes he has successfully moved on from the accidental death of his young son Brendan and the subsequent break up of his marriage to Chloe. He still has disturbing dreams occasionally, but he's in love again, with a fine woman called Alison, his job is going well, and he believes he has mastered his memories.

But then the current owner of Mark's old house claims that it's haunted by Brendan's ghost, and the old nightmares return, bringing some persistent questions with them. Has Brendan truly gone, or is he searching for Mark and Chloe's help? What would it mean to believe in a ghost? How will Alison react with Chloe back in his life? And who does he truly love?

You Came Back is a heartstopping novel which examines the beauty and danger of belief in all its forms, not only in the supernatural but in the values and beliefs which bind parents and children and lovers together.

You Came Back is Christopher Coake's first novel. On the basis of his book of stories We're in Trouble,
published by Penguin to great acclaim, he was named by Granta magazine as one of America's best young writers. A native of Ohio, he now lives in Reno, Nevada.

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• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0670921254
• ISBN 13: 9780670921256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432