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An extraordinary and quite remarkable new novel from a unique storyteller, Love is Strange is a bold and brilliant depiction of a family and a country caught up in a moral decline.
From the mid-1950s to the present day, Love is Strange charts the everyday life and eventual unravelling of an apparently ordinary, middle-class, suburban family. By means of a perfectly paced narrative, superb dialogue and a series of highly emotive monologues, Joseph Connolly takes us into the very souls of the four family members. Clifford is an eight-year-old short-trousered schoolboy who yearns to be an adult; Annette, his troubled elder sister, on the cusp of adolescence and coping badly with a convent education. Their mother Gillian, an archetypal fifties housewife, is devoted to Clifford, until life and events propel her elsewhere. Her husband Arthur is dictatorial and aloof, and in time his inner turmoils are to result in swift and devastating consequences for the family.
The eagerly-anticipated arrival of the family's first TV set is to provide the catalyst for a disaster which plunges the family into crisis. Clifford and Annette are spun into the 1960s in wholly surprising ways and in places as disparate as Swinging London's Carnaby Street and the hell of a punitive convent in rural Ireland.
Rich in the cultural detail of Britain throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Joseph Connolly's Love is Strange is a beautifully written and quite unforgettable novel of family life framed by a darkly English humour. Love is Strange is destined to be one of the most major and celebrated novels of the autumn 2005.
Joseph Connolly is the best-selling author of the novels Poor Souls (1995), This is It (1996), Stuff (1997), Summer Things (1998), Winter Breaks (1999), S.O.S. (2001) and It Can't Go On (2002). He has also written several works of non-fiction including admired biographies of Jerome K. Jerome and P.G. Wodehouse, and the standard work on book collecting, Modern First Editions.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From the mid-1950s to the present day, Love is Strange charts the everyday life and eventual unravelling of an apparently ordinary, middle-class, suburban family. By means of a perfectly paced narrative, superb dialogue and a series of highly emotive monologues, Joseph Connolly takes us into the very souls of the four family members. Clifford is an eight-year-old short-trousered schoolboy who yearns to be an adult; Annette, his troubled elder sister, is on the cusp of adolescence and coping badly with a convent education. Their mother Gillian, an archetypal fifties housewife, is devoted to Clifford, until life and events propel her elsewhere. Her husband Arthur is dictatorial and aloof, and in time his inner turmoil is to result in swift and devastating consequences for the family. Rich in the cultural detail of Britain throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Joseph Connolly's Love is Strange is a beautifully written and quite unforgettable novel of family life framed by a darkly English humour. Love is Strange is destined to be one of the most celebrated novels of the autumn. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR001750630
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Faber & Faber of London in 2005. Soft cover, so no Dust Jacket. 1st edition, 1st impression in this format. See inside number sequence " 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1." Book condition: Very Good. Both cover and inside pages are in good order. See photograph. Dims: 234mm x 155mm x 40mm. 456 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006540
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