A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone
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.
The night is huge and it hurts.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 136 pages
ISBN-10: 1644452294
Item Weight: 0.5 lbs
Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.6 x 8.1 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
Praise for Lanny
"A magically beguiling work, a triumph of artistic vision."--Financial Times (UK)
"Despair and unsettling entities are again on the menu, as are hard-won grace and beauty."--Laird Hunt, The New York Times Book Review
"One of the most beautiful novels of the past decade."--Michael Alec Rose, BookPage
Max Porter is the author of Lanny, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Death of Francis Bacon. He lives in Bath with his family.
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