We the Animals
Published on 11. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-547-84419-0 (ISBN)
Description
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER and an award-winning novel in stories surrounding a young, half-white, half-Puerto Rican boy grappling with life, love, and identity as he comes of age.
In this groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become.
"A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver's or Jeffrey Eugenides's voice did when we first heard it."?The Washington Post
"We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It's heartbreaking. It's beautiful. It resembles no other book I've read."?Michael Cunningham
"A miracle in concentrated pages, you are going to read it again and again."?Dorothy Allison
"Rumbles with lyric dynamite . . . Torres is a savage new talent."?Benjamin Percy, Esquire
"A fiery ode to boyhood . . . A welterweight champ of a book."?NPR, Weekend Edition
"A novel so honest, poetic, and tough that it makes you reexamine what it means to love and to hurt."?O, The Oprah Magazine
"The communal howl of three young brothers sustains this sprint of a novel . . . A kind of incantation."?The New Yorker
In this groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become.
"A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver's or Jeffrey Eugenides's voice did when we first heard it."?The Washington Post
"We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It's heartbreaking. It's beautiful. It resembles no other book I've read."?Michael Cunningham
"A miracle in concentrated pages, you are going to read it again and again."?Dorothy Allison
"Rumbles with lyric dynamite . . . Torres is a savage new talent."?Benjamin Percy, Esquire
"A fiery ode to boyhood . . . A welterweight champ of a book."?NPR, Weekend Edition
"A novel so honest, poetic, and tough that it makes you reexamine what it means to love and to hurt."?O, The Oprah Magazine
"The communal howl of three young brothers sustains this sprint of a novel . . . A kind of incantation."?The New Yorker
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 14 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
182 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-547-84419-0 (9780547844190)
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JUSTIN TORRES is the author of Blackouts, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary award, and the Southern California Book Award. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, he’s also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His first novel, We the Animals was a national bestseller and adapted into a feature film. He lives Los Angeles, and is an associate professor of English at UCLA.