Adam Haslett - Imagine Me Gone (Corte Madera)

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?

When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings—the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec—struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence.

Adam Haslett is the author of the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novel Union Atlantic. His story collection was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and his books have been translated into eighteen languages. In 2006, he won the PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction. Haslett is a graduate of Swarthmore College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Yale Law School. He has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Columbia University.

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
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ISBN: 9780316261357
Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 3rd, 2016