Great Group Reads: Out Stealing Horses
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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson is one of the titles that has been selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a National Reading Group Month Great Group Read.
Having recently lost his wife, 67-year-old Trond Sander leaves Oslo and moves to a part of Norway that is rural, almost primitive, to cultivate solitude. There, he finds himself confronting both his present and his past. In a long New York Times review, Thomas McGuane describes this as “a fairly short novel with a timescape of half a century that seems to have left out nothing important.” Out Stealing Horses has won several prestigious international awards. It was also an ALA Notable Book, and one of The New York Times‘ 10 best books of 2007. Discussion questions can be found at ReadingGroupGuides.
