Milkman
(2019, original release: 2018)

Fiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/BURNS,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/FICTION/BURNS,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019
©2018
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

591 pages ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781432863296, 1432863290 :, 1432863290, 9781432863296
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Thorndike Press large print basic"

Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished. Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with milkman (which she herself for the life of her cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous

2018 Man Booker Prize winner