Imagine Me Gone

Resumen del libro

A sweeping American drama about the long legacy of mental illness, the bonds of kinship, and the limits of love. Michael is John and Margaret's eldest son. He's a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music.

His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher than the boys, unshakeably certain about how the world works. And then there's Alec, the youngest, the most ambitious and also the most sensitive. He grows up in the shadow of Michael's distant coolness and Celia's pragmatic confidence, never quite keeping up with the others.

The children are still living at home when their brilliant, beloved father walks into the woods by their house and take his own life. Years later, one of them will follow him. How are we damaged by what we inherit? How much can any family give to save one of its own? And how can you tell the difference between what is passed on and what is picked up - between the truly inherited flaw and the self-fulfilling prophecy?Weaving together the voices of five family members, Adam Haslett imagines how a single isolated tragedy can become the event that defines many lives, unfolding a rich and painful novel that has all the makings of an American classic.

Biografía del autor

Adam Haslett (1970) es el autor de la novela Imagina que no estoy, finalista del premio Pulitzer y del National Book Critics Circle Award, y ganadora del Los Angeles Times Book Award. Con su colección de relatos Aquí no eres un extraño fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award. Y su novela Union Atlantic fue ganadora del Lambda Literary Award y finalista del Commonwealth Prize. Sus libros han sido traducidos a treinta idiomas, y sus artículos sobre cultura y política han aparecido en medios como The Financial Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation y The Atlantic, entre otros.<br> Ha sido galardonado con el Berlin Prize de la American Academy in Berlin, ha recibido una beca Guggenheim, los premios PEN/Malamud Award y PEN/Winship y el Strauss Living Award, otorgado por la American Academy of Arts x{0026}amp; Letters