![]() Porter is also the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, inspired by the provocative English artist, set during his last days in Madrid.īorn in 1981 in High Wycombe, England, Max Porter lives in Bath with his wife and three sons. In this intense story, a disturbed teenager's nighttime escape from the Last Chance school for troubled youth leads him to an unexpected, transformative experience in the woods. In his very affecting second novel, Lanny, a mysterious folkloric figure haunts a contemporary English village in which an unusual young boy goes missing, testing the values of the community.Ĭoncluding this fictional trilogy, Porter's latest novel, Shy, again focuses on a young person - and gets at the heart of human experience in a direct and authentic way. ![]() ![]() In his powerful and poetic first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, a talking crow helps a bereaved husband and his two young sons through the process of mourning. ![]()
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