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    This is How

    This is How

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    by M. J. Hyland


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      ISBN-13: 9780802197665
    • Publisher: Canongate U.S.
    • Publication date: 08/18/2009
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 256
    • File size: 2 MB

    M.J. Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in 1968. She studied law and English at the University of Melbourne and, until August 2005, lived and worked in Australia. Hyland is also the author of the international bestseller How the Light Gets In and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2006 for her second novel, Carry Me Down.

    Brief Biography

    Hometown:
    Melbourne, Australia
    Date of Birth:
    June 6, 1968
    Place of Birth:
    London, England
    Education:
    Arts/Law Degree, the University of Melbourne, Australia, 1996; M.A in English, The University of Melbourne, 2004
    Website:
    http://www.howthelightgetsin.com

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    M. J. Hyland is the award winning and Man Booker shortlisted author of Carry Me Down. Her third novel, This Is How, is a psychologically probing and deeply moving account of a man at odds with the world. Patrick Oxtoby is a perpetual outsider longing to find his niche. When his fiancé breaks off their engagement, Patrick leaves home and moves to a remote seaside village. In spite of his hopes for a new and better life, Patrick struggles to fit in or make the right impression. He can’t shake the feeling that his new friends are con­spiring against him, further fracturing his already fragile personality and prompting him to take a course of action that permanently alters the course of his life.
    This Is How is a mesmerizing and meticulously drawn portrait of a man whose unease in the world as it is leads to his tragic undoing. With breathtaking wisdom and astute insight into the human mind, Hyland’s latest is a masterpiece that arouses horror and sympathy in equal measure.

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    Publishers Weekly
    Hyland's clever prose is first-rate, but wit makes a weak substitute for insight in this novel about a deeply troubled young Englishman who seeks a fresh start, only to end up facing serious criminal charges. As a child, the unreliable 23-year-old narrator, Patrick Oxtoby, was an excellent student, but after a breakdown at age 14 he became fascinated with mechanics. Now, shortly after his fiancée leaves him, he lands in a small seaside town, takes a job at an auto repair shop and moves into a boarding house he can't afford. It seems as if Hyland misses every opportunity to delve into the roots of Patrick's awkwardness: his landlady and a local waitress provide him fantasy material, and it's clear, even from Patrick's problematic perspective, that he comes across as creepy. Nonetheless, both women inexplicably trust him, just as his parents and older brother appear to love and encourage him-until his arrest, at which point, and without explanation, they abandon him. Hyland (Carry Me Down) sails across Patrick's dark exterior with humor and empathy, but as with everyone Patrick encounters, she hesitates to dive below the surface. (Aug.)

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