The Boy Who Went Away

The Boy Who Went Away

First edition
Author Eli Gottlieb
Country United States
Language English
Publisher St Martins Press
Publication date
1997
Media type Print
Pages 208
Awards Rome Prize
McKitterick Prize
ISBN 0-312-15070-9

The Boy Who Went Away is a 1997 debut novel by Eli Gottlieb, it won the Rome Prize, the McKitterick Prize in 1998,[1] was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[2] and has been identified as one of the best novels of the 1990s.[3]

Plot introduction

Set in 1967 in Essex County, New Jersey, the story is a first person narrative by adolescent Denny Graubert about his dysfunctional family and autistic older teenage brother Fad. His mother Harta struggles against the authorities, using all means possible to keep Fad out of an institution, while his father Max retreats into alcohol. Denny spies on his family and gains evidence of both his fathers alcoholism and his mother's affair with one of Fad's doctors...

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