Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

From the best-selling author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee's award-winning debut is "One of the great queer novels . . . of our time."--Brandon Taylor, GQ



Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean-American boy growing up in Maine whose powerful soprano voice wins him a place as section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys choir. But when, on a retreat, Fee discovers how the director treats the boys he makes section leader, he is so ashamed, he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, Fee's best friend, is in line to be next. The director is eventually arrested, and Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself.



Years later, after he has carefully pieced a new life together, Fee takes a job at a private school near his hometown. There he meets a young student, Arden, who, to his shock, is the picture of Peter--and the son of his old choir director.



Told with "the force of a dream and the heft of a life" (Annie Dillard), this is a haunting, lyrically written debut novel that marked Chee "as a major talent whose career will bear watching" (Publisher's Weekly).

ALEXANDER CHEE is the author of The Queen of the Night, Edinburgh, and the essay collection How to Create an Autobiographical Novel, among other works. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic and a Virginia Quarterly Review editor at large. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, T Magazine, Slate, and Vulture. He has received resident fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri, and Amtrak, as well as a 2003 Whiting Prize, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in writing, and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship. He is an English associate professor at Dartmouth College.

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ISBN 13	9780544916128
ISBN 10	0544916123
Title	Edinburgh
Author	Alexander Chee
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mariner Books
Year published	2016-11-01
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.