See How Small by Scott Blackwood
A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose that's as fine as any being written by an American author today (Ben Fountain)‘A brutal, necessary and near perfect novel’ NPR
‘Mesmerizing … In lyrical, often dreamlike prose, Blackwood illuminates the nature of grief and the connections among the living and the dead’ People
‘See How Small is superbIn prose that's as fine as any being written today, Scott Blackwood plumbs the depths of a story that is alternately haunting, terrifying, and achingly tragic. Blackwood illuminates the human condition even as he breaks our hearts.’ Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
‘A genre-defying novel of powerful emotion, intrigue, and truth … Reminiscent of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones and based on a similar, still-unsolved 1991 case in Austin, Tex., Blackwood explores the effects of senseless crime on an innocent, tightly knit community, using deft prose to mine the essence of human grief and compassion’ Publishers Weekly (starred)
‘Blackwood’s short, shard-like chapters cleverly reflect the jagged emotional fragmentation of his characters’ Daily Mail
‘Blackwood’s novel has a delicate lyricism’ Sunday Times
‘Haunted and haunting … with characters rendered so convincingly you think about sending cards of condolence or calling with advice on the investigation’ Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone and The Maid's Version
‘Scott Blackwood is a wizard, and in See How Small he puts his skills to dazzling use as he anatomizes a town and a crime. Best of all is the deep empathy he brings to his characters, innocent and guilty, wise and confused; all of them are given the grace of his understanding. A vivid and astonishing novel.’ Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy
Scott Blackwood is the author of two previous books of fiction, In the Shadow of Our House and We Agreed to Meet Just Here, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award. He's also the author of The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, a book of narrative nonfiction. A long-time resident of Austin, Texas, Blackwood now lives in Chicago and teaches fiction writing in the MFA program at Southern Illinois University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007580934 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007580932 |
| Title | See How Small |
| Author | Scott Blackwood |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2015-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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