Anyone's Ghost
11 July 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled' - Matt Berninger of The National
'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times
A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us. Set over twenty years, August Thompson's debut Anyone’s Ghost will break your heart.
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Details
11 July 2024619 minutes
Lee Osorio
9781035034123Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Anyone's Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the frustrations of masculinity and the thrill of testing death itself. But more than any of that, it is an overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cryJonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
You know those books that you take with you everywhere? That you won’t stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That change you? Anyone’s Ghost is that book. Thompson has fired a literary flare into the black night of the universe and the illumination is spectacular.Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Genuinely powerful The Irish Times
This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titledMatt Berninger, frontman of The National
