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Gabriel's gift : a novel / Hanif Kureishi.
LIBRA - Special PR6061.U68 G33 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kureishi, Hanif.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Parent and child--Fiction.
- Parent and child.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, 2002.
- Summary:
- "Gabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out fo the house. His mother works nights in a pub and sleeps days. Navigating his way through the shattered world of his parents' generation, Gabriel dreams of being an artist. He finds solace and guidance through a mysterious connection to his deceased twin brother, Archie, and his own knack for producing real objects simply by drawing them."--P. [4] of cover.
- Notes:
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2001 by Faber Limited.
- ISBN:
- 074321711X
- 9780743217118
- 0743217136
- 9780743217132
- OCLC:
- 51610224
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