(Ebook) My Struggle Book № 3: Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett ISBN 9780099581499, 0099581493

(Ebook) My Struggle Book № 3: Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett ISBN 9780099581499, 0099581493

"Mr Knausgaard’s somewhat autobiographical novels are mesmerizing: he is contemporary fiction’s alchemist of the ordinary."  -  Dwight Garner, The New York Times The third volume — the book that made Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States — in the addictive New York Times bestselling series A family of four — mother, father, and two boys — move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Karl Ove Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, My Struggle: Book 3 gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolour recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence."Knausgaard transforms the personal and mundane into the universal and perennially significant... There is such depth of feeling beneath the vibrant exterior, such sense of the goodness present in human existence."  -  Paul Binding, The Spectator"Knausgaard is a writer strong enough to survive the hype... A masterpiece for the age of the selfie... Brutally frank about the frustrations of marriage, work and parenthood, it's often horrifying and deeply funny."  -  Anthony Cummins, The Observer