Description: English translation first published: Graywolf Press, c2011.
Brief description: Per Petterson is the author of books including In the Wake, To Siberia, and I Curse the River of Time. Out Stealing Horses has won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize. The New York Times Book Review named it one of the 10 best books of the year. A former bookseller, Petterson lives in Oslo, Norway.
Review Quotes:
"Superb writing." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting--all shafts of light and clear palpable chill." --Time "Petterson's youthful novel is an openhearted bildungsroman....His sentences yearn to fly away into poetry." --James Wood, The New Yorker "Spare, slim, and haunting, It's Fine by Me...offers the same moody prose and brilliantly unsentimental character revelations that have made Petterson a literary star." --Caroline Leavitt, The Boston Globe "The melancholy story, and the superb writing that propels it, are both raw and honest--the brutality of the father, the disregard of printing-press colleagues, the ugly street fights--and also deeply compassionate." --Minneapolis Star Tribune