Description
The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13 is a meditation on the line between sacrifice and selfishness and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories.
Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
A White Review Book of the Year
‘It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story Hilary Mantel.
So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting Maggie OFarrell.
The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13.
When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching – for the men involved and for their families back home.
Robert ‘Doc Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them.
While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.
Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories – even when words fail us.
A meditation on the line between sacrifice and selfishness, this is a story of the undervalued, unrecognised courage it can take just to get through the day.
About the Author
Jon McGregor is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Reservoir, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and Atonement. He lives in London with his wife and children.
Awards and Recognition
Jon McGregor has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Costa Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
His novels have been translated into numerous languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Conclusion
A White Review Book of the Year, The Hero is a powerful and moving novel that explores the nature of heroism and the human spirit in the face of adversity.
McGregor’s writing is characterized by its exquisite prose, its deep understanding of human emotions, and its ability to evoke powerful emotions in the reader.
This is a novel that will stay with you long after you have finished reading it, and that will continue to inspire and challenge you.
Weight: 396g
Dimension: 145 x 223 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008204907
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