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A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone


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.



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      Publisher Graywolf Press
      Published 2 May 2023
      ISBN-13 9781644452295
      978-1644452295
      ISBN-10 1644452294

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone


      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.



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