Rocks in the Belly - Softcover

Bauer, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846688450 ISBN 13: 9781846688454

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2012

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Críticas:

Gripping reading . . . This is a largely tragic book, but it speaks in a mesmerising voice a brutal truth about the intensity of family relationships (Sunday Telegraph)

Intelligent and funny (J M Coetzee)

Bauer tells his dark, psychological story obliquely and with dramatic precision . . . What dazzles most is Bauer's eye for physical and emotional detail. (Sydney Morning Herald)

A powerful first novel... Bauer expertly shifts voices between narrators... and provides properly complex answers to some fundamental questions. (John O'Connell Guardian 2012-02-11)

Reseña del editor:

You're eight years old. An only child. You love your parents, but you're convinced you're not enough for your mother because she fosters other people's kids. You've learnt to cope, just about, with how this makes you feel -- but then a boy called Robert arrives, and he and your Mum seem to connect in a way you never have. You hate him for it.

And her.

And one day you do something really bad to teach them both a lesson.

At twenty-eight, you return home to face your mother, who is now chronically ill. Despite the intervening years, you haven't forgiven her - or yourself - for what happened. Ultimately, though, it's her forgiveness you crave, even after all this time - because you need to know, finally, that you were enough for her.

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• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846688450
• ISBN 13: 9781846688454
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304