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After the Funeral and Other Stories

BuchPaperback
Verkaufsrang344701in
CHF22.90

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Category : FictionA masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships--"a revelation for aficionados of the form, as vibrant and knowing as the best of Hadley''s celebrated career."

In each of these twelve stories, small events have huge consequences<.< Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a;little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross paths at a posh hotel and pretend not to recognize each other. Janie's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janie's own age--everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Cecilia, a teenager, wakes one morning in Florence on vacation with her parents and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes.

As psychologically astute as they are emotionally rich, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams. A vital addition to Tessa Hadley's celebrated body of work,
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-593-46984-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandPaperback
Erscheinungsdatum02.07.2024
Seiten240 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht232 g
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