After his parents' divorce, August struggles to start over again in a new town. And when a shocking act of violence pushes him off course, he is once more on the move: this time to rural Montana, where he takes a job on a ranch. Here, he learns that even the smallest communities have secrets and even the most broken of families still have a bond. Unfolding against an epic American landscape, August is a magnificent, moving story about the joys and traumas that irrevocably shape us all.

From an assured new voice in American fiction, a magnificent and moving first novel about a boy coming of age in the American heartland

About the Author
Callan Wink was born in Michigan in 1984 and now lives in Livingston Montana, where he is a fly-fishing guide on the Yellowstone River. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays appear widely, including in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Playboy, Men's Journal and The Best American Short Stories Anthology. His first book, Dog Run Moon, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention.

Reviews
'Wink has a precise, clear prose style...The landscape is a character in itself - well-known, but changeable... Wink skilfully imbues his writing with a subtle sense of foreboding that never leaves... In this tightly controlled yet highly unpredictable novel we discover what it is like to come of age in a part of America that is always changing, always the same' - Guardian

'Callan Wink [...] reconfigures the landscape of the American West' - Irish Times



Book Information
ISBN 9781847088130
Author Callan Wink
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 213g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm