Oh, and A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews was pretty neat. It made me listen to the Doors and pretend I was living in the seventies for like, a week. Its Canadian, and is from 2004.
Oh, and A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews was pretty neat. It made me listen to the Doors and pretend I was living in the seventies for like, a week. Its Canadian, and is from 2004.
'Unless' by Carol Shields fits all your criteria except that she is (I think) Canadian. It's set in Canada, anyway.
An interesting read!Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Yes, Carol Shields is Canadian.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
"Foxfire" and "Spider Monkey" by Joyce Carol Oates - OK, she's from US but you could keep her in and throw the rest away.
The "young adult/teenage fiction" objection is a problem though. Anything with teenage protagonists is likely to be classed as "young adult/teenage." I'm thinking, for example, of Peter Dickinson, one of my favourite (British) authors. His books that win awards in the young adult categories, and which have young protagonists, tend to be those in which he explores his more serious themes - EVA, AK, Shadow of a Hero. Some of his "adult" books, on t'other hand, could best be classed as "fluff."
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
'Girl with a Pearl Earring' (Tracy Chevalier) is beautifully written and matches all your criteria.
Jan Siegel is an English author. her books are Prospero's Children, Dragon Charmer and Witch's Honour. her main characters are a sixteen year old girl and her younger brother.
Maybe
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Lost-Th...2579986&sr=8-2
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
- British author
- 2004 novel set during the Elizabethan era
- follows the main character from ages 14 to 19
- draws on historical narratives, but the main plot is fiction
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon. A 15 year old autistic teenage boy as the main character, 2003, British author, winner of book prizes, classy book. The only thing is some people put it in YA category, but I think that's because of the protagonist. It's won adult book prizes.
Oops, just noticed Kelby mentioned it....
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God's Own Country - Ross Raisin. About a teenage boy who lives with his parents on a farm in Yorkshire; quite similar to the wasp factory in some respects. Good read. Some great yorkshire words in it.
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