false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174428094m/398326.jpg 398326 7 <div><div>When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone.<br> <br><i>In the Wake</i> is the story of Arvid's first steps toward resuming that life, of his gradual confrontation with everything he lost and ultimately with his own role in the disaster that killed his family.<br> <br>Told with the insight and moral force of his countryman Knut Hamsun, <i>In the Wake</i> is the American debut of a treasured European writer.</div></div> 984224 2000 In the Wake: A Novel total:149|5:29|4:58|3:42|2:19|1:1| 149 542 248 43 4 2 false false Tue Sep 02 06:36:10 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 13:27:06 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 06:36:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:26:29 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 10:23:54 -0800 2008
Don't read ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 19 06:14:38 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 06 14:46:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 08:24:36 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 08:41:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 18 07:55:23 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 07:57:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:16:31 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 12:48:55 -0800 2009 In the Wake, scuttles somnambulistically through life years after the deaths of his parents and two youngest brothers in a ferry fire (based on a real event). Flashbacks inform us that he didn't have much gumption before the accident either. So the author has us follow hi...more...]]> 5 0 false true Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 20:43:25 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 20:43:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Nov 12 16:56:17 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 30 22:21:46 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 12 16:56:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Mar 06 10:01:34 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 10:15:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 13:04:17 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 23:34:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 08:14:17 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 08:15:24 -0700 2009
I started In the Wake about six months ago and made it only 30 pages before giving up. I’m very impatient with books that don’t have a clear narrative, and this one doesn’t—at least in the beginning. It alternat...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 12:56:43 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 16:33:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 10 18:52:59 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 07:49:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 15:28:04 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 09:58:05 -0800 2008 Out Stealing Horses, so imagined I would like this one as well...Maybe I would like it if I read it another time, but this month I just don't seem to have wanted to follow Arvid's careening emotions and memories and car drives. Cold, right? The only part...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 13 15:25:52 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 02 09:45:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 10 09:11:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 09:12:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 21:50:52 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 21:57:56 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun Jun 14 09:32:46 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 09:35:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 17:46:39 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 18:14:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 17 20:18:44 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 19:35:27 -0800 2009
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