Men in My Situation
  • Published: 29 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529111521
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.00

Men in My Situation

By the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses

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A tender, merciless portrait of a grief, divorce, fatherhood and a life going to pieces. A major new novel from the author of bestselling Out Stealing Horses.

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
  • Published: 29 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529111521
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Per Petterson

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been published in fifty languages and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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Also by Per Petterson

Echoland
I Refuse
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes
It's Fine By Me
I Curse the River of Time
To Siberia
In The Wake
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Praise for Men in My Situation

Petterson is a profoundly gifted novelist

Richard Ford

Petterson's spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force

The New Yorker

Petterson is remarkably gifted

James Wood

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

Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting-all shafts of light and clear palpable chill

Time

Subtly incisive . . . Clean sentence after clean sentence, Petterson conveys both the melancholy and the demi-pleasurable sensation of being fundamentally untethered.

Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review

Readers will find that they're in the hands of a master whose quiet, unforgettable voice leaves you yearning to hear more.

The Boston Globe

Per Petterson stands unsurpassed among contemporary writers for existential truth-telling.

Financial Times

A rare insight into male vulnerability

Jessie Thompson, Evening Standard