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Half a Life

Half a Life

Penned By Darin Strauss
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Half a Life

Half a Life

Penned By Darin Strauss
4.85 27,455 Ratings
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Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past."Half my life ago, I killed a girl."So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling past-collision life - the funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court case? and what starts as a personal tale of a tragic event opens into the story of how to live with a very hard fact: we can try our human best in the crucial moment, and it might not be good enough. Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

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Length 205 Pages
Imprint McSweeney's Publishing
Released September 13, 2010
Identifier (ISBN) 8114546
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Darin Strauss writes contemporary fiction and has always been fascinated by character-driven stories. They hold a degree in English Literature and previously worked as an editor before transitioning to writing their own books. Darin Strauss lives with their spouse and a very vocal rescue cat.

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