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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A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you{u2019}re not alone. This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy
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.