My sunshine away a novel
"My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989, when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson -- free spirit, track star, and belle of the block -- experienc...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
G. P. Putnam's Sons,
[2015]
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| Summary: | "My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989, when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson -- free spirit, track star, and belle of the block -- experiences a horrible crime late one evening near her home, it becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia has a dark side, too. In My Sunshine Away, M.O. Walsh brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime, unraveling families, and consuming adolescent love. Acutely wise and deeply honest, it is an astonishing and page-turning debut about the meaning of family, the power of memory, and our ability to forgive."--From publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | Subtitle from jacket. |
| Physical Description: | 306 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780399169526 (hbk.) 0399169520 (hbk.) |
| Author Notes: | His stories and essays have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Southern Review, American Short Fiction and Epoch. His short stories have also been anthologized in Best New American Voices, Bar Stories, Best of the Net and Louisiana in Words. My Sunshine Away is his debut novel. His collection of short stories, entitled The Prospect of Magic, was published in 2010. (Bowker Author Biography) |
