Sunstroke and Other Stories - Brossura

Hadley, Tessa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312425996 ISBN 13: 9780312425999

Casa editrice: Picador, 2007

Riassunto

A new collection of short stories by the author of Accidents in the Home explores the various undercurrents that lie hidden inside domestic relationships despite efforts to preserve the facade of a loving and stable family life. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Tessa Hadley's first novel, Accidents in the Home, was longlisted for The Guardian's First Book Award. Four of the stories in Sunstroke were published in The New Yorker. Hadley lives in Cardiff, Wales. Her novel The Master Bedroom was published by Henry Holt.

Product Description:

 A Picador Paperback Original Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close. In Tessa Hadley's stories, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312425996
• ISBN 13: 9780312425999
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192