Block, S: Oliver Loving - Couverture souple

?One moonless November night, Oliver Loving shyly joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic Junior. named Rebekkah Sterling. But às the music plays in the gymnasium, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire decisions this.. man makes that evening, and the unspoken story he carries, will tear the . town of Bliss, Texas apart. Nearly ten years later, Oliver still lies wordless and paralyzed at Crockett State Assisted Care Facility, the fate of his mind unclear. Meanwhile, his parents and his brother try to cope in their own disparate, self-destructive ways, whilst Rebekkah, who left Texas long ago, still refuses to speak about her own part in that tragic night. When.a new medical test promises a key to unlock Oliver's trapped mind, the town's unanswered questions resurface with new urgency, as Oliver's doctors and his family fight for a way for him to finally cómmunicate ― and so also to tell the truth of what really happened that fateful night. The brilliant breakout novel from a celebrated literary talent, Oliver Loving is a beautiful story of the myths we make ; the ties that bind us and the forces that keep us apart

?Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Plano, Texas. His first book, The Story of Forgetting, was an international bestseller and the winner of Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature. Stefan's stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, GRANTA, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Stefan lives in Brooklyn.