{"product_id":"boyhood-island-9780099581499","title":"Boyhood Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Karl Ove Knausgaard''s dazzling new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Morning Star\u003c\/i\u003e, is available to pre-order now *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChildhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the now infamously direct style of the \u003ci\u003eMy Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... \u003ci\u003eBoyhood Island\u003c\/i\u003e reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated fe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVia his visceral, immersive art, \u003cb\u003eKnausgaard makes the heart visible\u003c\/b\u003e -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eKnausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoyhood Island \u003c\/i\u003ereverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel\u003c\/b\u003e -- Thomas Meaney * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompelling and addictive\u003c\/b\u003e... One of the most grown-up works of fiction we have -- Hermione Hoby * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerfully hypnotic and addictive\u003c\/b\u003e… a Norwegian\u003ci\u003e Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha\u003c\/i\u003e -- Theo Tait * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Struggle \u003c\/i\u003eis already the most significant literary achievement of the 21st century\u003c\/b\u003e and we still have three volumes to go -- Matt Thorne * Sunday Express *\u003cbr\u003eKnausgaard's Proustian attention to detail and scrupulous analysis of emotional nuance is almost maddening – but ultimately magnificent * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eKnausgaard continues masterfully -- Malcolm Forbes * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most anticipated books of the year (the decade) -- Emily Stokes * Financial Times *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732311814487,"sku":"9780099581499","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099581499.jpg?v=1719996366","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/boyhood-island-9780099581499","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}