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The Son
- Author
- Michel Rostain
- Narrator
- Stefan Booth
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 23 May 2013
- Run Time
- 3 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, THE SON tackles the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways. Michel Rostain resolutely ducks away from sentimentality and pathos, and tells his story instead with wit, wisdom and vitality. For this is not a book about death; it's a book about life.
(P)2013 Headline Digital
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An original slant on the issues of grief and survival. Unusual, painful and intelligent writing
Susan Fletcher
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Details
- Author
- Michel Rostain
- Narrator
- Stefan Booth
- Duration
- 3 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 May 2013
- ISBN
- 9781472204004
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Fiction / Literature / Comics / Graphic novels: narrative themes
Synopsis
We first meet Michel eleven days after the death of his son Lion. Lion was lost, suddenly, to a virulent strain of meningitis and it's left his father and entire family reeling. We join Michel on his personal journey through grief, but the twist that makes the journey truly remarkable, and tips this true story into fiction, is the fact that we see it all through Lion's eyes.In a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, THE SON tackles the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways. Michel Rostain resolutely ducks away from sentimentality and pathos, and tells his story instead with wit, wisdom and vitality. For this is not a book about death; it's a book about life.(P)2013 Headline Digital
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