Its Fine By Me, Per Petterson
Its Fine By Me, Per Petterson
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It's Fine By Me

Author: Per Petterson

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 5 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/30/2012


Synopsis

Fans of Per Petterson will be delighted by this opportunity to observe Arvid Jansen in his youth from a fresh perspective. In It's Fine By Me, Arvid befriends a boy named Audun. On Audun's first day of school, he refuses to talk or take off his sunglasses; there are stories he would prefer to keep to himself. Audun lives with his mother in a working-class district of Oslo. He delivers newspapers and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with Arvid. But he's not sure that school is the right path for him and feels that life holds other possibilities. Sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, It's Fine By Me is a brilliant novel from an acclaimed author.

About Per Petterson

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill

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