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Author Fossum, Karin, 1954-

Title Broken / Karin Fossum ; translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F FOSSUM    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  MYSTERY FOSSUM    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  MYSTERY FOSSUM    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC FOSSUM, K    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F FOSSUM, KARIN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  FOSSUM    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  M-FOSSUM    Check Shelf
Description 265 pages ; 24 cm
Summary A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange man is in her bedroom. She lies there in silence, paralyzed with fear.The woman is an author and the man one of her characters, one in a long line that waits in her driveway for the time when she?ll tell their stories. He is so desperate that he has resorted to breaking into her house and demanding that she begin. He, the author decides, is named Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, works in a gallery. He lives a quiet, orderly life and likes it that way?no demands, no unpleasantness. Until one icy winter day when a young drug addict, skinny and fragile, walks into the gallery. Alvar gives her a cup of coffee to warm her up. And then one day she appears on his doorstep. Broken is an unconventional, subtle, and disturbing mystery from a master of the form--Book jacket.
Awakened in the middle of the night by one of her own desperate characters, a shocked writer is compelled to envision a background and publish his story, which unfolds through the appearance of an obsessive young drug addict.
Subject Authors -- Fiction.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction.
Characters and characteristics -- Fiction.
Added Author Barslund, Charlotte.
Added Title Brudd. English
ISBN 9780151013661
0151013667
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