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A father and his boys have won 'the war': the father's term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave Kansas and drive through the night to their new apartment in Albuquerque. Settled in new schools, the brothers join basketball teams, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. Soon his missteps - the dead-eyed absentmindedness, the late-night noises, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters - become sinister, and the boys find themselves watching him transform into someone they no longer recognize.
Set in the stark landscape of New Mexico and the family's cramped apartment, One of the Boys delivers a superbly nuanced portrait of a violent and menacing man, manipulating the world around him that it might service his idea of himself. Brutal and urgent, this masterful debut is a story of survival: two brothers driven to protect each other from the father they once trusted.
Set in the stark landscape of New Mexico and the family's cramped apartment, One of the Boys delivers a superbly nuanced portrait of a violent and menacing man, manipulating the world around him that it might service his idea of himself. Brutal and urgent, this masterful debut is a story of survival: two brothers driven to protect each other from the father they once trusted.
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'Brilliant, urgent, darkly funny, heartbreaking - a tour de force with startling new things to say about class, masculinity, addiction, and family.'George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
'Remarkably lucid and unsparing. Some passages feel so true, you keep wanting to put the book down to applaud...'--Guardian
'Spine-chilling... Magariel packs an impressive amount of emotion into his short book.'--Irish Times
'Told in prose that's spare and concise, this is a heartbreaking but compelling portrait of a childhood twisted by a controlling parent, as well as the unbreakable bond between brothers'--Daily Mail 'Magariel's portrayal of parental treachery, youthful courage and lost innocence is gripping and disquieting' --Carys Bray, author of A Song for Issy Bradley
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'Remarkably lucid and unsparing. Some passages feel so true, you keep wanting to put the book down to applaud...'--Guardian
'Spine-chilling... Magariel packs an impressive amount of emotion into his short book.'--Irish Times
'Told in prose that's spare and concise, this is a heartbreaking but compelling portrait of a childhood twisted by a controlling parent, as well as the unbreakable bond between brothers'--Daily Mail 'Magariel's portrayal of parental treachery, youthful courage and lost innocence is gripping and disquieting' --Carys Bray, author of A Song for Issy Bradley
Daniel Magariel received his BA from Columbia University and his MFA from Syracuse University, where he was a Cornelia Carhart Fellow. He has lived in Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Florida, Colorado, and Hawaii. He currently lives in New York with his wife.
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- Publication date2018
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