03271cam a2200325 4500 266932024 TxAuBib 20160629120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316261326 0316261327 B0151YQYYU Amazon ee9818b0-40d4-48d8-b424-867e8d60157c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2387324 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Haslett, Adam. Imagine Me Gone [Bridges eBook]. Little, Brown and Company, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 481kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 481kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>"Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization."-<i>-Wall Street Journal</i><br /> "Ambitious and stirring . . . With <i>Imagine Me Gone</i>, Haslett has reached another level." <i>—New York Times Book Review</i><br /> <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice<br /> Best Books of 2016 So Far — <i>Time</i><br /> 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?<br /></b>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. <i>Imagine Me Gone</i> 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.<br /> Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father's pain in the life of a family.<br /> With his striking emotional precision and lively, inventive language, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-06-28 23:00:03. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=ee9818b0-40d4-48d8-b424-867e8d60157c http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ee9818b0-40d4-48d8-b424-867e8d60157c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ee9818b0-40d4-48d8-b424-867e8d60157c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ee9818b0-40d4-48d8-b424-867e8d60157c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)