Snow Angels
A Novel
ISBN10: 0312422768
ISBN13: 9780312422769
Trade Paperback
320 Pages
$22.00
CA$24.99
Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974, experiencing the confusing pangs of adolescence and the pain of his parents' divorce. His world is shattered further by the sudden and violent death of Annie Marchand, his beloved former baby-sitter. Narrated by the adult Arthur, who continues to be haunted by memories, these interlinking stories of a young man's unraveling family and the circumstances leading up to Annie's death form the backdrop of an intimate tale of the price of love and belonging, told in a spare, translucent, and unexpectedly tender voice.
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"A thriller of the heart, at once suspenseful and emotionally absorbing."—Newsday
"Beautiful and harrowing . . . An exquisite double helix, each of its two strands the tale of an unraveling family, curving in tenuous but essential relation to the other."—Elle
"Stunning . . . A truthful and deeply sad picture of the American hinterland, which has lost religion and maybe also lost its capacity for sustained love . . . Wonderfully effective . . . O'Nan sees with a vengeance."—The New York Times Book Review
"Haunting . . . a whole that's much more than the sum of its parts . . . Moving, beautifully constructed, morally complex."—The Washington Post Book World
"Shines with a cold, stark light . . . Strangely beautiful."—Los Angeles Times
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I WAS IN THE BAND the fall my father left, in the second row of trombones, in the middle because I was a freshman. Tuesdays and Wednesdays after school we practiced in the music room, but on Fridays Mr. Chervenick led us outside in our down...
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