

It's Fine By Me
Author: Per Petterson
Narrator: Adam Verner
Unabridged: 5 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 10/30/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Per Petterson
Narrator: Adam Verner
Unabridged: 5 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 10/30/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Per Petterson is the author of five previous novels, which established him as one of Norway's best fiction writers. Petterson worked as a manual laborer, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. His novel Out Stealing Horses won the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was named one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and Time.
If you use Ernest Hemingway’s criteria – “all you have to do is write one true sentence”, Per Petterson is profoundly gifted. I’ve marveled at the authenticity of his other books, particularly Out Stealing Horses and To Siberia. This one is newly translated and actually precedes the others; it was w......more
Teen angst in the working class of Oslo Norway is the main theme in this novel. The narrator, Auden Sletten, begins his story at age 13 when he transferred to a new school. The reader quickly learns that Auden is a closed teen with a pseudo-tough facade. He has reasons: a raging alcoholic father, po......more