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A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces from the bestselling author.

'Vivid and moving... It would be hard to find a better writer than Petterson' Irish Times

In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that took his parents and two of his brothers.

Existence has become a question of holding on to a few firm things. Loud, smoky bars, whisky, records, company for the night and taxis home. Or driving his Mazda into the stunning, solitary landscape outside of Oslo, sleeping in the car when his bed is an impossible place to be.

Adrift and inept, Arvid feels his life unravelling. Is there any redemption for a man in his situation?

'Per Petterson writes about masculinity as well as anyone' Torrey Peters

'A rare insight into male vulnerability' Evening Standard



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Petterson's spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force * The New Yorker *
Petterson is a profoundly gifted novelist -- Richard Ford
Is there a living writer better at conveying the disconcerting relationship between time and memory?... There is pleasure, too, in watching Petterson shift through the gears from pleasure to unease in one of those gloriously sinuous sentences that have become something of a trademark -- Adrian Turpin * Financial Times *
Petterson is remarkably gifted -- James Wood
Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting-all shafts of light and clear palpable chill * Time *

Men in My Situation: By the author of the

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 4 August 2022
      ISBN-13 9781529111521
      978-1529111521
      ISBN-10 1529111528
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces from the bestselling author.

      'Vivid and moving... It would be hard to find a better writer than Petterson' Irish Times

      In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that took his parents and two of his brothers.

      Existence has become a question of holding on to a few firm things. Loud, smoky bars, whisky, records, company for the night and taxis home. Or driving his Mazda into the stunning, solitary landscape outside of Oslo, sleeping in the car when his bed is an impossible place to be.

      Adrift and inept, Arvid feels his life unravelling. Is there any redemption for a man in his situation?

      'Per Petterson writes about masculinity as well as anyone' Torrey Peters

      'A rare insight into male vulnerability' Evening Standard



      Trade Review
      Petterson's spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force * The New Yorker *
      Petterson is a profoundly gifted novelist -- Richard Ford
      Is there a living writer better at conveying the disconcerting relationship between time and memory?... There is pleasure, too, in watching Petterson shift through the gears from pleasure to unease in one of those gloriously sinuous sentences that have become something of a trademark -- Adrian Turpin * Financial Times *
      Petterson is remarkably gifted -- James Wood
      Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting-all shafts of light and clear palpable chill * Time *

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