Imagine Me Gone

In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them.

An ageing inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. An orphaned boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a rest home, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn, teenage volunteer.

With Checkovian restraint and compassion, conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, is a triumph.

The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist : a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century.

At the heart of lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte's intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them.

Irresistibly complex, imaginative, and witty, is a singular work of fiction that is sure to be read and reread long after it causes a sensation this spring.

Девять историй, девять жизней, девять кругов ада. Адам Хэзлетт написал книгу о безумии, и в США она мгновенно стала сенсацией: 23 % взрослых страдают от психических расстройств. Герои Хэзлетта — обычные люди, и каждый болен по-своему. Депрессия, мания, паранойя — суровый и мрачный пейзаж. Постарайтесь не заблудиться и почувствовать эту боль. Добро пожаловать на изнанку человеческой души. Вы здесь не чужие. Проза Адама Хэзлетта — впервые на русском языке.