Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love. At the heart is the couple's eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the decades, his younger siblings - savvy, responsible Celia and sensitive, meticulous Alec - struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and
Adam Haslett is the author of the short-story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, a New York Times bestseller shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the US National Book Award, and the novel Union Atlantic, winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Hamish Hamilton published his latest novel, Imagine Me Gone. His books have been translated into eighteen languages and his writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, the Financial Times, and Der Spiegel, among others. He lives in New York.
Publisher's description. How much can any of us do to save those we
love from themselves? What does the dark legacy of guilt do to a
person, to a relationship, to a family? Achingly poignant and
sharply witty, this portrait of a single tragedy rippling across
many lives has all the makings of an American classic.
*Penguin*
Imagine Me Gone is literature of the highest order. It manages to
be both dreadfully sad and hilariously funny all at once. It is
luminous with love
*Peter Carey*
Exceptional, haunting, intimate and panoramic...There is an
exhilaration in reading something so perceptive and well
executed...This is certainly a sad story, but also a warm and
moving one, which bears witness to the intertwining of grief and
love
*Sunday Times*
With skill and subtlety, Imagine Me Gone sweeps the reader into its
characters' worlds and makes us reflect on our own lives. It might
be the best American novel about a middle-class family since
Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
*Independent*
Haslett has a great gift for capturing the strikingly different
inner worlds of his characters and rendering them in beautiful
prose
*Guardian*
It's not just one of the best novels of the year; it might be one
of the best novels ever about living, and dying, with mental
illness
*NPR Best Books of the Year 2016*
Raw, tender and hilarious...a family saga reminiscent at times of
Anne Enright's The Green Road...The Pulitzer-Prize-shortlisted
Haslett lets rip to dazzling effect...A showstopper
*Daily Mail*
There are some books, and this is one, that grab you in the first
paragraphs and don't let go. A beautiful novel that re-evaluates
how we cope with tragedy
*ELLE*
Brilliantly captures the excruciating burden of love
*Esquire*
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