Shy : a novel /

Shy : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Porter, Max, author.
Imprint:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2023. ©2023
Description:	122 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Teenage boys -- Fiction. Teenage boys -- Mental health -- Fiction. Teenage boys -- Psychology -- Fiction. Group homes for teenagers -- Fiction. Psychic trauma -- Fiction. Guilt -- Fiction. Imagination -- Fiction. Group homes for teenagers. Guilt. Imagination. Psychic trauma. Teenage boys. Teenage boys -- Mental health. Teenage boys -- Psychology. Psychological fiction. Novels. Fiction. Novels. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13395911

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ISBN:	9781644452295 1644452294 9781644452301
Notes:	"First published in 2023 by Faber & Faber Limited, London"--Title page verso.
Summary:	Shy, a troubled teenage boy, wanders into the night, listening to the voices in his head and considering the weighty question of his future. He is escaping Last Chance, a home for disturbed young men. Navigating his night terrors and his past, in an old house on a dilapidated estate, Shy seeks new forms of hope-- and perhaps a new beginning. -- adapted from jacket.

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Summary:	A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. Got your special meds, nutcase? He is escaping Last Chance, a home for "very disturbed young men," and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future. The night is huge and it hurts. In Shy , Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny . But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation. EditBuild
Item Description:	"First published in 2023 by Faber & Faber Limited, London"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	122 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9781644452295 1644452294 9781644452301