The End of the World Is a Cul De Sac: Stories - Softcover

Kennedy, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059354093X ISBN 13: 9780593540930

Verlag: Riverhead Books, 2024

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Brilliant, dark stories of women’s lives by “a very major talent” (Joseph O’Connor, Irish Times)

In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women’s lives are etched by poverty—material, emotional, sexual—but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they’ve been dealt.

A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate, with blood on her hands. An expectant mother’s worst fears about her husband’s entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is tormented by visions of the man her brother murdered during the Troubles. A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage. Plumbing the depths of intimacy, violence, and redemption, these stories are “dazzling, heartbreaking . . . keen to share the lessons of a lifetime” (Guardian).

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Louise Kennedy grew up near Belfast. The author of the novel Trespasses, she has written for The Guardian, The Irish Times, and BBC Radio 4. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a chef for almost thirty years. She lives in Sligo, Ireland.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Riverhead Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 059354093X
• ISBN 13: 9780593540930
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 289
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