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003			OCoLC
005			20250625141946.0
008			241115s2025 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2024052363
020			_a9781982112820 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1982112824
020			_a9781982112837 _q(paperback)
020			_a1982112832
035			_a(OCoLC)on1451661796
037			_bSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 _nSAN 200-2442
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dIG# _dOCLCO _dFAYTV _dMJ8 _dOCLCO _dBRL
041	1		_aeng _hswe
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050	0	0	_aPT9877.12.A32 _bM913 2025
082	0	0	_a839.73/8 _223/eng/20241115
100	1		_aBackman, Fredrik, _d1981- _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aMy friends. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aMy friends : _ba novel /
250			_aFirst Atria Books hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtria Books, _c2025.
300			_a436 pages ; _c24 cm
520			_a"#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who "captures the messy essence of being human" (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger's life twenty-five years later. Most people don't even notice them-three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier. There's Joar, who never backs down from a fight; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long; and finally, there's the artist, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention, but who possesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. These four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa's care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this bequest, she embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn the story of how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting's birthplace, the more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit, but happy endings don't always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to the transformative power of friendship and art"--
650		0	_aArt _vFiction.
650		0	_aArtists _vFiction.
650		0	_aPainting _vFiction.
650		0	_aFriendship _vFiction.
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft
655		7	_aRomans. _2rvmgf
700	1		_aSmith, Neil _q(Neil Andrew), _etranslator.
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