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	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
English
Categories
Horror & supernatural fiction

I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

Iain Reid

You will be scared. But you won´t know why...

Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to visit his parents at their remote farm. After dinner at the family home, things begin to get worryingly strange. And when he leaves her stranded in a snowstorm at an abandoned high school later that night, what follows is a chilling exploration of psychological frailty and the limitations of reality.

Iain Reid's intense, suspenseful debut novel will have readers' nerves jangling. A series of tiny clues sprinkled through the relentlessly paced narrative culminate in a haunting twist on the final page.

Reminiscent of Michel Fabel's Under the Skin, Stephen King's Misery and the novels of José Saramago, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is an astonishing and highly original literary thriller that grabs you from the startand never lets go.

I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is part literary thriller, part philosophical dialogue on the limitations of reality. The full story isn't unlocked until the very last words are read.

Iain Reid is the author of two critically acclaimed comic memoirs, One Bird's Choice (winner of the CBC Bookie Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year) and The Truth About Luck (named by Canada's Globe and Mail as one of the best books of 2013). Reid recently received the 2015 RBC Taylor Emerging Author award. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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Book Published 2016-06-01 by Simon & Schuster (N-A)

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Simon & Schuster/Scout Press (recently launched)

One of the 16 books to read the first half of 2016

One of the most anticipated literary thrillers of the season.

Nonfiction author Reid (The Truth About Luck) fuses suspense with philosophy, psychology, and horror in his unsettling first novel set in an unspecified locale. When Jake takes his unnamed new girlfriend to meet his parents, he doesn't realize she's thinking of ending things (just what she might end is at first unclear). Dinner at the family farm proves awkward, reinforcing her doubts about their relationship. On their way home, the weather turns nasty and Jake pulls off the road at a darkened high school. He takes the keys and exits the car, but never returns, leaving his girlfriend little choice but to strike out after him. While the events preceding the couple's separation have the air of a disquieting dream, those that follow are the stuff of nightmares. Stream-of-consciousness narration by Jake's girlfriend adds to the story's surreal quality, and occasional blocks of unattributed dialogue about an unspecified tragedy impart dread. Capped with an ending that will shock and chill, this twisty tale invites multiple readings. -Starred Review, Publishers Weekly

"Reid's tightly crafted tale toys with the nature of identity and comes by its terror honestly, building a wall of intricately layered psychological torment so impenetrable it's impossible to escape." - starred Kirkus review Read more...

Oscar winner Charlie Kaufman, known for films such as Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, is set to write and direct an adaptation of I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS by Iain Reid for Netflix. Reid will co-produce.

"Iain Reid's I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is brilliant. We have simply not been able to stop talking about it."

"Iain Reid's I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is an engaging and bizarre dialogue between normality and weirdness, where 'normal' equals dishonesty and 'weird' is synonymous with vulnerability. In a novel this twisted it shouldn't come as a surprise that its ending is even stranger than the narrative route that takes us there...but it does. Reid's novel is a road trip to the heart of creepyness."

Text Publishing

Prometheus

WeLearn

The construct of this book is brilliant and unusual and should appeal to fans of psychological thrillers, as well as to some horror fans. A dark and compelling debut novel, it is a most uncomfortable read but utterly unputdownable. -Starred Review, Booklist

Presses de la Cité

HaKursa

This is a deliciously frightening novel, Reid has a light, idiosyncratic touch but never lets his vice-like grip of suspense slacken for a second. Once finished, you will be hard pressed not to start the whole terrifying journey all over again.

Lindhardt og Ringhof

Rocco