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The Nix

Author: Nathan Hill
SKU: 9781509807857

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‘The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.’ – John Irving Nathan Hill’s brilliant debut takes the reader from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix. Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games.

He hasn’t seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart.

Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. As Samuel begins to excavate his mother’s – and his country’s – history, he will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about her – a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.

  • Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 640 pages

ISBN : 9781509807857

Published : 21 Sep 2017

Author : Nathan Hill

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Pan Macmillan

Size : 131 x 196 x 40 (mm)

Weight : 436g

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