A.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable.
She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human compassion and leaps of black humour.
From the winner of the Costa Book Award for Day.
Product details
- Paperback | 224 pages
- 129 x 198 x 14mm | 159g
- 05 Aug 2010
- Vintage Publishing
- VINTAGE
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 009949406X
- 9780099494065
- 409,077
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