Imaginary Things - Couverture souple

Lochen, Andrea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1941286119 ISBN 13 : 9781941286111

Editeur : Astor + Blue Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Burned out and broke, twenty-two-year-old single mother, Anna Jennings, moves back to her grandparents’ rural home for the summer with her four-year-old son, David, in tow. Living next door is Jamie Presswood, Anna’s childhood friend, now much more handsome and hardened than she remembers. Jamie reminds her of simpler times—Ferris wheels and sparklers, picnics and Neapolitan ice cream—long before she met her unstable ex, and everything changed. But the sudden appearance of shadowy dinosaurs awakens Anna from her small-town spell, and forces her to realize that she’s either lost her mind or can somehow see her son’s active imagination. Frightened, Anna struggles to protect David, but what she uncovers along the way is completely unexpected: revelations about what her son’s imaginary friends may truly represent, and long buried secrets about her own childhood.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrea Lochen is the author of two novels to date. Her first novel, `The Repeat Year’ was highly praised as `an engaging, satisfying read’ and draft of the work won the 2008 `Hopwood Novel Award’. Her second novel, `Imaginary Things’ has been equally well-received and its sheer originality, being about a single mother who can see her child’s imaginations coming to life, which combines mystery and suspense with accounts of uninhibited and cataclysmic events, sets Lochen on a course which will inevitably see her as one of the foremost new authors of her age. She studied creative writing, earning a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was a Colby Fellow, a Bachelor’s degree in English having been secured at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the fiction editor of `The Madison Review’. Since 2008, Lochen has taught undergraduate writing at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, and was recently awarded the `UW Colleges Chancellor’s Award’ for excellence in teaching. Andrea Lochen currently lives in Madison with her husband and daughter, determined to pursue her alter-writing career.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Astor + Blue Editions
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1941286119
• ISBN 13: 9781941286111
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible