âKatherine Carlyle is a masterpiece.â âPhilip Pullman, best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy
â[T]his road trip through a snow dome of mesmeric hallucinations is Thomson at his best.â âRichard Flanagan, author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
Katherine Carlyle is Rupert Thomsonâs breakthrough novel. Written in the beautifully spare, lucid, and cinematic prose Thomson is known for, and powered by his natural gift for storytelling, it uses the modern techniques of IVF to throw new light on the myth of origins. It is a profound and moving novel about identity, the search for personal meaning, and how we are loved.
Unmoored by her motherâs death and feeling her father to be an increasingly distant figure, Katherine Carlyle abandons the set course of her life and starts out on a mysterious journey to the ends of the world. Instead of going to college, she disappears, telling no one where she has gone. What begins as an attempt to punish her father for his absence gradually becomes a testing ground of his love for her, a coming-to-terms with the death of her mother, and finally the mise-en-scène for a courageous leap to true empowerment.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Coming of Age
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Other Press
Author : Thomson, Rupert
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2015-10-06
Number Of Pages : 304
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1590517385
ISBN-13 : 9781590517383
Item weight : 0.79 lb
Dimensions : 0.73 in x 5.85 in x 8.43 in
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