Man, I feel so optimistic all of a sudden. A lot of things will be happening in the next few weeks, and I just realized the combined significance of the possibilities that are going to come around. The first three months of the school year, which tend to be the most dragging for me, are probably going to be the most important ones this year.
It’s just blarghakdjkmkmc. I’m excited and nervous and frightened in a good way and in a not so good way and incapable of expressing my feelings eloquently (For now). There’s a great chance that I’m going to end up becoming frustrated and throwing my hands up in the air in surrender more than usual later on, but it comes with the territory. It is a great time to carpe diem.
the mediocre gatsby
the decent wall of china
the ok depression
alexander the average
the hunky dory divide
the ordinary barrier reef
Alright Britain
the adequate mushroom war
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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER | NEW NOVEL | 2014
Simon Prosser, Publishing Director of Hamish Hamilton, has acquired British and Commonwealth rights for Jonathan Safran Foer’s third novel, Escape from Children’s Hospital, the follow-up to the internationally-acclaimed, bestselling Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
A fictionalised account of a life-changing event that happened to the author as a nine-year-old - an explosion in a summer camp science class, which left his best friend without skin on his face or hands, and whose brunt the author avoided by inches and for no good reason - this is a story about the shared trauma of childhood, the potential destructiveness of storytelling, and the redemptive power of friendship. Weaving precariously between non-fiction and fiction, and existing at the intersection of different styles (suspense, memoir, imaginative storytelling), the book moves out from that moment in 1985 to the repercussions on the ever-expanding circle of those affected by it.
Explaining his ambition for the book, Jonathan Safran Foer writes: ‘What actually happened that day? What is a novel capable of? These are the two questions I have been living inside of, and I hope they will answer one another: my novel is what happened that day; and a truthful, experiential telling of that day is what the novel is capable of.’
Simon Prosser comments: ‘I couldn’t be more excited about a novel or about a writer - and I am thrilled that we are the first of Jonathan’s publishers to acquire this book.’
Picture by Sonja Kresowaty in homage to Gray318
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