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A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone, soon to be adapted as the major motion picture STEVE, starring Cillian Murphy


This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.

You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that.

He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.

Got your special meds, nutcase?

He is escaping Last Chance, a home for "very disturbed young men," and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past, and the heavy question of his future.

The night is huge and it hurts.

In Shy, Max Porter extends the excavation of boyhood that began with Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and continued with Lanny. But here he asks: How does mischievous wonder and anarchic energy curdle into something more disturbing and violent? Shy is a bravura, lyric, music-besotted performance by one of the great writers of his generation.

Book details

Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: Shy
• Author: Max Porter
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9781644452295
• ISBN: 1644452294
• ID: 41461245
• Publisher: GRAY WOLF PR
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. May 2023

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