Book
The boy in the field: a novel
HarperCollins Publishers
2020
Appears in Recent Books by UI Authors
Abstract
"One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, returns her gaze. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents' marriage. Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart."--
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The boy in the field: a novel
- Creators
- Margot Livesey - University of Iowa, Creative Writing
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers; New York
- ISBN
- 0062946390; 9780062946393
- eISBN
- 9780062946416; 0062946412
- Number of pages
- 256 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2020
- Academic Unit
- Creative Writing
- Record Identifier
- 9983995486002771
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