
Anyone's Ghost
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Lee Osorio
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By:
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August Thompson
Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful
“This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.” —Matt Berninger, The National
“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
An 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
It took three car crashes to kill Jake.
Theron 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.
Theron is not there for the third crash.
And 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.
Brimming with rare, radioactive talent, August Thompson has written a love story that is electrically alive and exquisitely tuned.
In the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, “This book will make you cry.”
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Critic reviews
“A beautiful exploration of the all-encompassing nature of friendship, specifically male friendship, and the devastating speed at which grief can derail your life. Thompson paints a nuanced and understanding portrait of love and bisexuality while underlining how everything from the people you know to the music you listen to as a teenager can brand themselves indelibly on your sense of self.”—Service95
“Brilliant . . . A coming-of-age story of first love, discovery, and grief.”—American Songwriter
“The unattainable boy will always be out there, but a genuinely powerful debut that succeeds solely on its merits instead of hype is a lot harder to find. Anyone’s Ghost, however, is one.”—The Irish Times
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this was painful, beautiful, raw, and real
a tragic love story between two boys that could have been an epic movie-like romance had they felt safe in their own skin, had they received the support and guidance they were seeking
had they not made such important life choices based on double standards imposed by a narrow minded society
“Maybe in another life, huh?”
I knew it'd hurt but I wasn't expecting it to be so poetic, it was a great surprise... the tears were worth it and it's one of those stories I know I'll reread often
and the narrator was perfect
raw and poetic
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Thompson’s writing delivers one dopamine hit after another: the nuanced observations that had me nodding in recognition, the fresh turns of phrase. Halfway through this listen, I bought a hard copy so I could go back and study Thompson's craft. I look forward to reading the novel, but I’m glad I listened to it first: Lee Osorio’s narration creates a vivid, immersive experience that does justice to Thompson’s prose.
My question now is: Who will direct the film? I see Timothée Chalamet in the lead role.
A tender, intimate portrait, skillfully narrated
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Heartbreak from the get go
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Exquisite
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Great story and engaging performance!
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The love between two teenage boys and the life together that never was
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No redeeming characters - they're all awful
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The narrators “Jake” voice is laughable. Sounds like bravos and butthead. Really bad and completely changes the tone of the book.
Voice acting really does this book a disservice
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