Katherine Carlyle

"Katherine Carlyle is a masterpiece." --Philip Pullman, best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy

" T]his road trip through a snow dome of mesmeric hallucinations is Thomson at his best." --Richard Flanagan, author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize

Katherine Carlyle is Rupert Thomson's breakthrough novel. Written in the beautifully spare, lucid, and cinematic prose Thomson is known for, and powered by his natural gift for storytelling, it uses the modern techniques of IVF to throw new light on the myth of origins. It is a profound and moving novel about identity, the search for personal meaning, and how we are loved.

Unmoored by her mother's death and feeling her father to be an increasingly distant figure, Katherine Carlyle abandons the set course of her life and starts out on a mysterious journey to the ends of the world. Instead of going to college, she disappears, telling no one where she has gone. What begins as an attempt to punish her father for his absence gradually becomes a testing ground of his love for her, a coming-to-terms with the death of her mother, and finally the mise-en-sc ne for a courageous leap to true empowerment.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 10/06/2015
ISBN: 9781590517383
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 08/17/2015
Booklist 09/01/2015 pg. 40
Library Journal 10/01/2015 pg. 74
New York Times Book Review 12/20/2015 pg. 19
New York Times Book Review 12/27/2015 pg. 22