Fall Paperback by Colin Mcadam

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2010-03-02)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 368 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143055341
• Item Weight: 306.18 grams
• Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.25 x 0.95 cm

A spellbinding psychological thriller and a masterpiece of adolescent perspective, from the internationally acclaimed author of Some Great Thing and Black Dove

A place of pressure and contradictions, St. Ebury is an exclusive Ottawa boarding school, a mixed school with only a handful of girls.

Fall is the most beautiful. At night the campus hums with thoughts of her. Noel, a clever loner, spends his time watching her, certain that one day Fall will come to know him deeply. But like everyone else she is drawn to Julius, the magnetic son of the American ambassador.

In their final year the two boys room together, and Noel’s boisterous enthusiasm becomes something darker as he imagines himself the confidant of his popular roommate. While Julius experiences the joys and absurdities of daily life, Noel recounts, from a distance of many years, the consequences of his attempts to enter Fall’s life.

An unforgettable story of guilt, memory, and confused identity, Fall is a work of power, searing ambition, and pitch-perfect observation.

About the Author

COLIN McADAM’s novel, A Beautiful Truth, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. His first novel, Some Great Thing, won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the U.K. His second novel, Fall, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and awarded the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennon Prize. He is also the author of the 2022 novel Black Dove. He lives in Chelsea, Quebec.