Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan (2008, Hardcover)

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Condition
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
9780670020324
Book Title
Songs for the Missing
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length
8.5 in
Publication Year
2008
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1 in
Author
Stewart O'nan
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General, Literary
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Width
5.8 in
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
067002032X
ISBN-13
9780670020324
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038805678

Product Key Features

Book Title
Songs for the Missing
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Author
Stewart O'nan
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-022274
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Songs For The Missingis both profound and profoundly beautiful. A haunting meditation on the power of those we lose, its emotional resonance defies description. Like most of Stewart O'Nan's work, my ultimate response was the highest praise one writer can pay another: envy. I so dearly wish I'd written it." -- Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, " Songs For The Missing is both profound and profoundly beautiful. A haunting meditation on the power of those we lose, its emotional resonance defies description. Like most of Stewart O'Nan's work, my ultimate response was the highest praise one writer can pay another: envy. I so dearly wish I'd written it." — Dennis Lehane , author of Mystic River “Taut prose and matter-of-fact detail enrich this compelling portrait of teenage life in small-town Ohio, as the disappearance of a popular girl on the cusp of leaving home for college changes the communal dynamic of family and friends. The latest from O'Nan ( Last Night at the Lobster , 2007, etc.) initially reads like a whodunit, but who or why become less important than the character of the vanished Kim Larsen from the differing memories of those who knew her best—or thought they did—and the ways in which Kim's disappearance allows all sorts of revelations to come to light. The opening chapter is the only one that views Kim's life from her own perspective: the job she tolerates, the little sister who occasionally annoys her, the parents whose tension between them sometimes rises to the surface, the friends with whom she shares routines and some confidences, the boyfriend with whom she isn't serious enough to stay with past the summer. She anticipates college as an escape from the town where "every night they fought a war against boredom and lost," yet she's understandably apprehensive about living away from home. Then she disappears, putting her parents into a panic, forcing her friends to decide which secrets to reveal, uniting the community in its attempts to aid the search and offer support to the family. Will Kim's disappearance end her parents' marriage or make it stronger? Is there a logical explanation, a motive, or is this simply evidence of "the world's incoherence"? Though the author sustains narrative momentum through the conventions of the police procedural (with chapter headings such as "Description of the Person, When Last Seen" and "Known Whereabouts"), ultimately the novel is less about a possible crime than about the interconnections of small-town life. "The problem was that everything was connected," thinks one of Kim's friends. "One lie covered another, which covered a third, which rested against a fourth. It all went back to Kingsville being so goddamn small." A novel in which every word rings true.� — Kirkus (starred)
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community's efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of a daughter whose return becomes increasingly unlikely. Stark and honest, this is an intimate account of what happens behind the headlines of a very American tragedy., Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, "Songs for the Missing" begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community's efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of a daughter whose return becomes increasingly unlikely. Stark and honest, this is an intimate account of what happens behind the headlines of a very American tragedy.
LC Classification Number
PS3565.N316S66 2008

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