Anyone's Ghost

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This new novel is a real heart-squeezer' - Matt Berninger of The National 'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times 'Electric' - Vogue IT TOOK THREE CAR CRASHES TO KILL JAKE The first crash. New Hampshire. Teenagers Theron and Jake meet in the heat of the summer. Jake is everything Theron wants to be - hot, cool, interesting. Drunk in Jake's van on their last night together, they hurtle off a dirt road at 2am. The second crash. New York City. Jake and Theron have drifted apart, but when they are reunited in the midst of a hurricane, they are both forever changed. The third crash. Texas. Driving on a lonely highway, Jake finds the oblivion he has always been chasing in one final collision, and Theron is left to grapple with the ghosts of their past. 'A beautiful exploration of the all-encompassing nature of friendship, specifically male friendship, and the devastating speed at which grief can derail your life' - Service95 'It should be placed alongside modern love stories such as Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow'- Crack 'This book will make you cry' - Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated

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Anyone's Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the frustrations of masculinity and the thrill of testing death itself. But more than any of that, it is an overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
You know those books that you take with you everywhere That you wont stop talking about to your friends That bring it all back That change you Anyones Ghost is that book. Thompson has fired a literary flare into the black night of the universe and the illumination is spectacular. -- Junot Daz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Genuinely powerful * The Irish Times *
This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled -- Matt Berninger, frontman of The National
Anyones Ghost is a ferocious novel of erotic friendship, uncategorizable love, and vexed masculinity, voiced by a narrator as winning and largehearted as any character Ive recently met. With its psychedelic prose and fierce moral intelligence, this is one of those books that makes you want to keep living. To read it is to fall more deeply in love with the world. -- Maggie Millner, author of Couplets: A Love Story
This is a beautifully observed tale, which really stays with you, and it should be placed alongside modern love stories such as Gabrielle Zevins Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow * Crack *
This book is a monster: the magnificent writing, the gallery of characters, the fascinating glimpse into the right now make it stand about twenty feet tall among new books I've read -- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life
[An] electric debut novel . . . With shades of Andr Aciman and Donna Tartt, the book fascinates from its first sentence . . . Thompsons hypnotic prose and addictive plot moves and exhilarates in equal measure. * Vogue *

Author Bio

August Thompson was born and raised in the middle of nowhere, New Hampshire. He studied in New York and Berlin, wasted all of his good hearing at metal shows, taught English in Spain for two years, and spent another two on couches across three continents. He returned to New York as a Goldwater Fellow at NYU's Creative Writing Program. Anyone's Ghost is his first novel.