Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith (English) Paperback Book

Description: Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith A richly atmospheric American debut about lost innocence and life on the ragged margins of societyJude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Judes neighbour - younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good. Jude is black and Cindy is white. One summer, Jude disappears. Search parties go out but come back empty-handed and strangely pleased. Jude thought she was better than everyone else. Look at her now. Meanwhile Cindy is performing a vanishing act of her own. She is slipping out of her old life and into someone elses. She is becoming Jude . . . FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Sarah Elaine Smith holds MFAs in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop and poetry from the Michener Center for Writers. She is also a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Wallace Fellowship and a teaching-writing fellowship, in addition to the Keene Prize for Literature, the Roy Crane Prize, the Richard Yates Prize for Short Fiction and the Cleveland State University Poetry Centers First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Tin House, FENCE, Best New Poets and others, and she is the author of one poetry collection, I Live in a Hut. She lives in Pittsburgh. Review Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished dont come along very often . . . Smith is a writer of immense talent and rare imagination [and] this novel reads like a miracle * NPR *Strange and powerful . . . Its a book brimming with longing, with heartbreak. Its a coming-of-age by coming into somebody else * The New York Times *Audacious... Smiths beautiful, poetic prose transforms this strange coming-of-age story into something wondrous * Daily Express, Best New Paperbacks of Summer 2020 *Rich and vivid, [a] hauntingly gorgeous debut novel... Smith captures this unstable world with matter-of-fact poetry, spare and sensual and surprisingly funny * Kirkus (STARRED REVIEW) *One of the most unforgettable books Ive read this year, offering a uniquely haunting, but also disarmingly funny and lyrical look at loss, love and the desire to be seen * NYLON *This is a mysterious and strangely exciting debut. Smith is a poet, and writes in sensory driven, soul-tapping prose. * Booklist *Enthralling, startling and stunning... The prose leaves you raw, defying you to articulate what the book is because it feels too immense, promising no easy answers * Paste *Feral, alert and hungry, an unsettling coming-of-age story. Her words create a picture of desperation and absence and a poignant story of accountability * BUST *An eerie exploration of desperation and the complexities of maternal love... Sure to be a page-turner * Lit Hub (Most Anticipated Books of 2019) *A stunningly evocative debut novel * Boston Globe * Review Text Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished dont come along very often at all, and Marilou Is Everywhere proves Smith a writer of immense talent and rare imagination... This novel reads like a miracle. Review Quote Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished dont come along very often at all, and Marilou Is Everywhere proves Smith a writer of immense talent and rare imagination... This novel reads like a miracle. Promotional "Headline" A richly atmospheric American debut about lost innocence and life on the ragged margins of society Details ISBN0241986516 Author Sarah Elaine Smith Pages 288 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-10 0241986516 ISBN-13 9780241986516 Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-07-01 Language English Format Paperback UK Release Date 2021-07-01 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrator Gillian Flint Translator Bill Johnston Birth 1939 Death 1939 Affiliation Carnegie Mellon University Position Assistant Professor Qualifications PsyD Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Alternative 9780241400968 DEWEY 813.6 Audience General NZ Release Date 2021-09-27 AU Release Date 2021-09-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:132718721;

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