We are all completely beside ourselves / Karen Joy Fowler.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Serpent\'s Tail, 2013.Description: 323 pagesISBN:- 9781781252956 (paperback)
- 1781252955 (paperback)
- 813 FOW
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 813 FOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100482968 |
Rosemary\'s young, just at college, and she\'s decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we\'re not going to tell you too much either: you\'ll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life... There\'s something unique about Rosemary\'s sister, Fern. So now she\'s telling her story; a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice... It\'s funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you\'re telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern, don\'t feel bad. It\'s pretty hard to resist.
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Karen Joy Fowler is the author of several novels and short story collections. Her works include Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, Sister Noon, and The Jane Austen Book Club. She has received numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for Black Glass, the World Fantasy Award in 2011 for What I Didn't See, and the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. This same title was nominated for The Man Booker Prize for Best Novel in 2014.(Bowker Author Biography)