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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Per Petterson
Creator: Anne Born
Publisher: Picador
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Rating:  80 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0312427085
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.82374
EAN: 9780312427085
ASIN: 0312427085
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk. From the moment Trond sees a strange figure coming out of the dark behind his home, the reader is immersed in a decades-deep story of searching and loss, and in the precise, irresistible prose of a newly crowned master of fiction.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 So wanted to like this, but... August 18, 2008
Mary Reinert (Nevada, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The writing is this book is beautiful. I could feel the cold when reading. And, the premise of the story -- a man attempting to escape his past but events just will not let them, is a good one. However, after a while, I just felt like I was missing something. The time sequence of the novel moves from present to past and back again and at times I had difficulty making those moves. This is definitely a study in characterization, not plot. I agree with those that praised the writing style, and agreed with those that felt it left them somehow unfulfilled.
 A most extraordinary voice August 11, 2008
Barbara McDonald (North of the South, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First, I read In The Wake, then Out Stealing Horses. Both books affected me in the same way; I was mesmerized. This is a writer who controls his reader from the start. He draws you in while you drum your fingers impatiently -- what a slow book, you are thinking -- then he owns you.
After finishing In The Wake, my first thought was...eat your heart out, Ernest Hemingway. This author is more knowing, more skilled, larger, unmannered. (Perhaps appearing unmannered is his skill?) I didn't want to read another author for a week or two; they all read like amateurs.
I am reading Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist. She has much of the same hypnotic power and control over the reader.
Good Read August 8, 2008
CarMann
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book loses something in the translation. It starts out a little slow. Although this is a good story, it is not written as well as I would have preferred.
Personal Search/Reflection on a life August 8, 2008
Bonnie Ludlow (Monmouth County, N.J.)
This is a brief but large beautifully written book. A grieving man retreats to the solitude of his youth-the woods of Norway-the place of his father, the place where he grows from adolescence to young adulthood. Don't expect the loose ends to be tied. The author leaves questions. A great book club selection.
Out Stealing Horses August 5, 2008
K. Anthony (Burke, VA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not a huge fan of fiction--it generally disappoints so I stick to non-fiction. But this one caught my eye--largely because it was written by a Norwegian and had gotten a good review. It was wonderfully translated. A real gem. And clean enough so that you could share it with an older relative and not be embarrassed. Great story!
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