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The moving story of a young man's life from an international literary master.
On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling. So he refuses to talk and refuses to take off his sunglasses.
In his late teens Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in their home in a working-class district of Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend Arvid. But he's not sure that school is the right path for him, feeling that life holds other possibilities.
Sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, It's Fine by Me is a brilliant novel from the acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.
Genre: Literary Fiction
On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling. So he refuses to talk and refuses to take off his sunglasses.
In his late teens Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in their home in a working-class district of Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best friend Arvid. But he's not sure that school is the right path for him, feeling that life holds other possibilities.
Sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, It's Fine by Me is a brilliant novel from the acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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October 2012 : USA Hardback
October 2012 : Hardback

Title: It's Fine by Me
Author(s): Per Petterson, Petterson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Availability: Amazon CA
November 2011 : UK Hardback
Paperback Editions
September 2013 : USA Paperback
November 2012 : UK Paperback
November 2011 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
November 2012 : USA Audio edition
October 2012 : USA Audio CD
October 2012 : USA MP3 CD
Kindle Editions
October 2012 : USA Kindle edition

Title: It's Fine By Me: A Novel
Author(s): Per Petterson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Availability: Amazon
November 2011 : Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition