- One for Sorrow (novel)
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One for Sorrow Author(s) Christopher Barzak Country 
USALanguage English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Bantam Books Publication date 2007 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 320 ISBN 978-0-553-38436-9 OCLC Number 123350080 Followed by The Love We Share Without Knowing For other uses, see One for Sorrow (disambiguation).One for Sorrow is a coming-of-age novel by the American writer Christopher Barzak.
It tells the story of Adam McCormick, age fifteen, and his relationship to Jamie Marks, a boy found murdered in the woods, but does not follow the traditional suspense or mystery novel's convention of tracking down the murderer. Instead, the book explores the nature of relationships between young adults and their families, communities (a somewhat hard-scrabble rural working class small town outside of Youngstown, Ohio), and the search for hope or redemption.
The novel makes use of fantastical elements (in this case, ghosts) situated in a mostly realistic, recognizable setting.
One for Sorrow won the Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy in 2008. It was also nominated for the Great Lakes Book Award, The Logo Channel's New Now Next Award, and The Locus Award for Best First Novel. The novel was praised as "lovely, melancholy, offbeat" in a Village Voice review of 2007.[1] The Washington Post called One for Sorrow a "remarkable first novel."
Barzak's second novel, The Love We Share without Knowing, also released by Bantam, is due to be released November 25, 2008.[2]
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A review of One for Sorrow in the San Francisco Chronicle: Thursday's back in latest Jasper Fforde comic novel
A short interview with Christopher Barzak: [1]
Categories:- 2007 novels
- American novels
- Debut novels
- 2000s novel stubs
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