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It Will End with Us, Paperback / softback Book

It Will End with Us Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Newsweek's Favorite Books of 2014 Praise for Sam Savage: Winner of the O.

Henry Prize for "Cigarettes" "Sam Savage manages to be both artful and literal-minded in this faux autobiographical tale of childhood and a mother afflicted and finally driven mad by her wish for artistic success. Savage writes knowingly about the uncertainties of childhood memory, but creates a convincing world of sibling combat and adult pretension. A wonderful, absorbing novel."--C. Michael Curtis, Fiction Editor, The Atlantic Monthly "If the world--all its hysteric noise--was muted for just one minute, Sam Savage is what you might be fortunate enough to hear.

His elegant laconism, his leaps across the self-evident, his soft aplomb, and the rarified air he bestows upon the mundane make him the only American writer worthy of the label the true eccentric."--Valeria Luiselli It Will End With Us is Sam Savage's latest deep dive into the mind and voice of a character, and his most personal work yet.

Brick by textual brick, his narrator, Eve, builds a memorial to the mother who raised her, emotionally abandoned her, and shaped her in her own image. Eve's memories summon a childhood in rural South Carolina, a decaying house on impoverished soil, and an insular society succumbing to the influences of a wider world.

It Will End With Us is a portrait of a place full of hummingbirds and wild irises, but also of frustration and grief.

It is the story of a family tragedy, provoked by a mother's stifled ambitions, and seized by the wide-open gaze of a child.

Rarely has a novel so brief taken on so much, so powerfully. Sam Savage is the best-selling author of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, The Cry of the Sloth, Glass, and The Way of the Dog, all from Coffee House Press.

A finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Savage holds a PhD in philosophy from Yale University and resides in Madison, Wisconsin.

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