Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade. But then something unimaginably shocking happens...
I love Idaho for the sparse beauty of its prose, the unsolvable mystery at its heart, the cleverly constructed non-linear narrative and its preoccupations… which so closely match my own -- Paula Hawkins * Guardian *
Writing that has the cool sharpness of lemonade.. Unflinching, unfrilly, multi-layered storytelling that is both beautiful and devastating -- Rachel Joyce
Hauntingly brilliant, this book will stay with you for days after you’ve put it down * Evening Standard, Books of the Year *
You're in masterly hands here... will remind many of the great Idaho novel, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping... wrenching and beautiful * New York Times Book Review *
From the first page it is clear that Ruskovich’s poetic, spare writing would be enough to compel on its own, but this extraordinary story of a violent event that decimates a young family in northern Idaho is the true engine here. It’s a puzzle that enthrals from the outset. -- Lucy Clark * Guardian *
Writing that has the cool sharpness of lemonade.. Unflinching, unfrilly, multi-layered storytelling that is both beautiful and devastating -- Rachel Joyce
Hauntingly brilliant, this book will stay with you for days after you’ve put it down * Evening Standard, Books of the Year *
You're in masterly hands here... will remind many of the great Idaho novel, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping... wrenching and beautiful * New York Times Book Review *
From the first page it is clear that Ruskovich’s poetic, spare writing would be enough to compel on its own, but this extraordinary story of a violent event that decimates a young family in northern Idaho is the true engine here. It’s a puzzle that enthrals from the outset. -- Lucy Clark * Guardian *
EMILY RUSKOVICH's critically acclaimed first novel, Idaho, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and won the Dublin Literary Award. A winner of a 2015 O. Henry Award and a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, her writing has appeared in publications including the Paris Review, the Guardian, Zoetrope and One Story. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Montana, where she teaches fiction. She grew up in the Idaho panhandle, and lives in the mountains of western Montana with her husband and their three small children. Nightjar is her second book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099593959 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099593955 |
| Title | Idaho |
| Author | Emily Ruskovich |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2018 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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