August: a beautiful learning novel in the America of the great outdoors.

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August, was raised on a dairy farm in Michigan Twelve-year-old August moved in with his mother in Montana, after his parents divorced.

There he fell in love with the vast landscapes, discovered rodeo and fly fishing but struggles to make amis.

After an episode of rare violence, he ended up get hired on an isolated ranch in the region. Delivered to himself in a country struck by the attacks of 11- September, he will have no choice but to face the contradictions of the adult and the man he is in the process of to become…

It’s a gorgeous story of a child growing up in two worlds, the modern one of divorced parents and contemporary emotional baggage, and the former life spent in rural Midwest farm towns and Montana ranches.

What are our lives made of? Of a thousand little nothings that nevertheless make up our destiny in this pivotal period where you’re technically an adult, but you haven’t found your identity outside of your parents and the way you were raised.

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Augustis somewhat to literature what Richard Linklater’s film, Boyhoodis at the cinema.

The author Callan Wink describes, with sincerity and subtlety, the way in which the joys and sorrows of adolescence shape us.–

And it offers us a poignant coming-of-age story and a superb novel of learning in the America of the great outdoors.“

“Augustis the first novel by Callan Wink to be published, since March 3, by Albin Michel editions in the very beautiful Terres d’Amérique collection.

August, Callan Wink, Michel Lederer, Albin Michel

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