Out Stealing Horses

Petterson, Per

ISBN 10: 1555974708 / ISBN 13: 9781555974701

Published by Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN, 2007

About this Item

A fine copy in a fine, first state dust jacket, now in a clear removable protective cover. Winner of the Dublin IMPAC Award, the Norwegian Bookseller Prize, the Critics' Award for best novel and the "Independent" Foreign Fiction Prize. A top five best fiction of the year as selected by the NY Times. Scarce first printing. Small first printing of 5,000. Not remaindered, price clipped or otherwise marked. Bookseller Inventory # 010769

Bibliographic Details

Title: Out Stealing Horses

Publisher: Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition:Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First U. S. Edition - First Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July.

Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day―an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys.

Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer.

About the Author:

Per Petterson is the author of books including In the Wake, To Siberia, and I Curse the River of Time. Out Stealing Horses won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize. The New York Times Book Review named it one of the 10 best books of the year. A former bookseller, Petterson lives in Oslo, Norway.