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So Many Ways to Begin A Novel

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Publisher's Synopsis

Now in paperback for the first time, So Many Ways to Begin is a potent examination of family and memory, a look at what happens when life forces you to let go of the person you might have been. David Carter is an obsessive collector, and the curator of the local history museum. In addition to overseeing the community's archives, he has, since boyhood, diligently archived the items that tell his own life story: birth certificate, school report cards, movie and train tickets. But when a senile relative lets slip a long-buried family secret, David is forced to consider that his whole carefully cataloged life may be constructed around a lie. In fits and starts, his world begins to unravel.Praise for So Many Ways to Begin:"Jon McGregor might be the best chronicler I know of the way small accidents can set a life in motion, and the way what's said between people-or left unsaid-can change everything. This is a beautiful book, elegant and particular and heart wrenching. I loved it."-Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It"McGregor is a brilliant prose stylist, and here he excels at making ... the ordinary seem extraordinary."-Sunday Times (UK ).

Book information

ISBN: 9781596914858
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint: Bloomsbury Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 336g
Height: 208mm
Width: 141mm
Spine width: 26mm