| Songs for the Missing Contributor(s): O'Nan, Stewart (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143116029 ISBN-13: 9780143116028 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: On the heels of the critically acclaimed and bestselling "Last Night at the Lobster" comes this honest, heartfelt account of one family's attempt to find their missing child. O'Nan's novel begins with the suspense of a thriller and soon deepens into an affecting family drama of loss. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Thrillers - Psychological - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008022274 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.36" W x 7.96" (0.56 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A heartfelt family drama of loss and reconciliation with the unthinkable, from the author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community's efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of a daughter whose return becomes increasingly unlikely. Stark and honest, this is an intimate account of what happens behind the headlines of a very American tragedy. |