{"product_id":"anyones-ghost-paperback-1","title":"Anyone's Ghost - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAugust Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize - Named a Best Book of 2024 by \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.\"\u003cb\u003e --Matt Berninger, The National\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAnyone's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men during one unforgettable teenage summer in rural New England haunts them into adulthood \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt took three car crashes to kill Jake.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheron David Alden is there for the first two: the summer they meet in rural New Hampshire, when he's fifteen and anxious, and Jake's seventeen and a natural; then six years later in New York City, those too-short, ecstatic, painful nights that change both their lives forever--the end of the dream and the longing for the dream and the dream itself, all at once. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheron is not there for the third crash. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd yet, their story contains so much joy and self-discovery: the glorious, stupid simplicity of a boyhood joke; the devastation of insecurity; the way a great song can distill a universe; the limits of what we can know about each other; the mysterious, porous, ungraspable fault line between yourself and the person you love better than yourself; the beautiful, toxic elixir of need and hope and want. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrimming with rare, radioactive talent, August Thompson has written a love story that is electrically alive and exquisitely tuned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, \"This book will make you cry.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugust Thompson \u003c\/b\u003ewas born and raised in the middle of nowhere, New Hampshire, before he attended middle school in West LA. After surviving California optimism, he moved to NYC for his bachelor's, studied in Berlin, and taught English in Spain for two years. He recently received his MFA at New York University's creative writing program as a Goldwater Fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47265448165625,"sku":"9780593656587","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/1js0F-baH49780593656587_fa4e9be2-5feb-46ed-a617-56a233fd2488.webp?v=1768843242","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/anyones-ghost-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}