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The Missing Person

The Missing Person


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When art history grad student Lynn Fleming finds out that Wylie, her younger brother, has disappeared, she reluctantly leaves New York and returns to the dusty Albuquerque of her youth. What she finds when she arrives is more unsettling and frustrating than she could have predicted. Wylie is nowhere to be found, not in the tiny apartment he shares with a grungy band of eco-warriors, or lingering close to his suspiciously well-maintained Caprice. As Wylie continues to evade her, Lynn becomes certain that Angus, one of her brother's environmental cohorts, must know more than he is revealing. What follows is a tale of ecological warfare, bending sensibilities, and familial surprises as Lynn searches for her missing person. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

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"This promising debut is intelligent, insightful and often bitterly funny . . . A knowing and witty take on family ties, the politics of art and academia, and eco-terrorism." --"Publishers Weekly" " ""Just when you wonder how we can possibly reinvent the coming-of-age novel, along comes Alix Ohlin. "The Missing Person "is a funny, quirky and whip-smart debut. Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future." -Jay McInerney "Alix Ohlin is a skillful storyteller, and her heroine is attractively quick-witted and wry. "The Missing Person" is an impressively assured debut novel." -J. M. Coetzee "Alix Ohlin's seductively droll, page-turning portrait of the subcultures that exist within families-and without-is as tenderhearted and raw as it is unsentimental and smart. Ohlin is that rare find-a writer of emotionally intelligent (and intelligently emotional) fiction. Expect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams." -Heidi Julavits "With precise language and careful detail, Alix Ohlin takes us into the shadows of Albuquerque to reveal yesterday's monkey-wrenchers who have become today's eco-terrorists-tattered, beer-drinking, angry, pierced, tattooed, alienated, and committed to the soul of earth. A wonderful debut by a terrific young writer." -Chris Offutt "From the Hardcover edition." "A taut, tart chronicle of family life, with its scattered joys and nonnegotiable sorrows." -"Los Angeles Times" "A radiant debut. . . . Smart and original [with] a Southwest so perfectly imagined the reader can smell the dust. . . . Marvelous." -"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "A seriously entertaining and probing novel." -"The Washington Post" ""The Missing Person" isn't a mystery yarn or a family gothic, a romance, or a satire of radical environmentalism. It's all of the above and then some. . . . Delicious." -"Austin Chronicle" "Alix Ohlin is a sensitive writer, alert to the look and feel of things, and to the comedies and contradictions of her characters' obsessions." -"The New York Times Book Review"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780307429001
  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books USA
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307429008
  • Publisher Date: 18 Dec 2007
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 205


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