Imagine Me Gone
{{Short description|2016 novel by Adam Haslett}}
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| genre = Literary fiction
| publisher = Little, Brown and Company
| pub_date = 3 May 2016
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| media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback)
| pages = 368 pp.
| isbn = 978-0-316-26135-7
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Imagine Me Gone is a 2016 novel by American author and novelist Adam Haslett. It concerns a couple, Margaret and John, who marry despite John's crippling depression, and is narrated by the couple and their three children.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/05/04/476048053/unquiet-minds-make-absorbing-reading-in-imagine-me-gone |title=Unquiet Minds Make Absorbing Reading In 'Imagine Me Gone' |last=McCalpin |first=Heller |date=4 May 2016 |publisher=NPR Books |accessdate=23 January 2017}} The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award.{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2016#.WIZbsJJOE4B|title=2016 National Book Awards|year=2016|publisher=National Book Award|accessdate=23 January 2017}}{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2017-04-13 |title=Adam Haslett, L.A. Times Book Prize finalist, discusses 'Imagine Me Gone' |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-fob-adam-haslett-20170413-story.html |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
Reception
According to Book Marks, the book received a "rave" consensus, based on seventeen critics: twelve "rave" and five "positive".{{Cite web |title=Imagine Me Gone|url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/imagine-me-gone/|access-date=16 January 2024 |website=Book Marks}} In the July/August 2016 issue of Bookmarks, the book was rated four out of five.{{Cite web |title=Imagine Me Gone|url=https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=839481|access-date=14 January 2023 |website=Bookmarks |date=March–April 2025|page=32}}
Critics particularly focused on the quality of Haslett's prose.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/29/imagine-me-gone-by-adam-haslett-review|title=Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett review – tragedy, loss and transcendence|last=Feigel|first=Lara|date=29 June 2016|work=The Guardian|accessdate=23 January 2017}} Lara Feigel, writing for The Guardian called his writing "finely adapted for each of the characters". NPR's Heller McAlpin noted how, "Haslett's signature achievement in Imagine Me Gone is to temper the harrowing with the humorous while keeping a steady bead on the pathos."
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Category:English-language novels
Category:Books about depression
Category:Little, Brown and Company books
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