Teenager Nick is fifteen when he experiences his first panic attack. What follows is a hypnotic, thrilling Bildungsroman, exploring mental illness and the interior life of a troubled adolescent. Clune has crafted a stunning fever dream of a novel, with language that evokes those difficult teenage years with rare empathy and skill—however irrational and frenzied Nick becomes, you never lose affinity with him. One that it would be criminal to leave off the prize lists.
Synopsis
A strange and brilliant teenager’s first panic attacks lead him down the rabbit hole in this wild, highly anticipated debut novel about the joy and anxiety of youth by the acclaimed memoirist and cult writer
Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable. He’s fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his mostly absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs and an outsider at school. Then, one day, he forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be psychiatric: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body.
As the paradigm for his own consciousness crumbles, Nicholas and his friends hunt for answers why – in art, music and literature – as they reach for a life beyond the confines of where they’ve grown up and what’s expected of them.
Thrilling, surprising and startlingly funny, Pan takes us inside the human psyche, where we might just discover that the forces controlling our inner lives are more alien than we want to believe.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9781911717614
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 233 x 143 x 29 mm
- Weight: 439g
- Languages: English
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