Dark Roots: Stories

Kennedy, Cate

ISBN 10: 0802170455 / ISBN 13: 9780802170453

Editore: Grove Press, Black Cat, 2008

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0802170455I4N00

Riassunto:

The first American compilation of award-winning short fiction by the Australian author of the travel memoir Sing and Don't Cry explores the hidden depths of the human psyche, as well as the conflict between our inner lives, the outside world, our secret motivations, and the traumas that transform our lives. Original.

Product Description: Following her American debut in The New Yorker, Australian Cate Kennedy delivers a mesmerizing collection of award-winning stories that daringly travel to the deepest depths of the human psyche. In this sublimely sophisticated and compulsively readable collection, Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail to explore the collision between simmering inner lives, the cold outside world, and the hidden motivations that propel us all to act. In just a few pages, Kennedy captures entire lives, expertly documenting the risks and compromises made in both forging and escaping relationships. Her stories are populated by people on the brink: whether it's a woman floundering with her own loss and emotional immobility as her lover lies in a coma; a neglected wife who cannot convince her husband of the truth about his two brutish, shamelessly libidinous friends; or a married woman who comes to realize that her too-tight wedding ring isn't the only thing that's stuck in her relationship. Each character must make a choice and none is without consequence--even the smallest decisions have the power to destroy or renew, to recover and relinquish. Devastating, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots deftly unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures and the coincidences that drive our lives. This arresting collection introduces a new master of the short story.

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Titolo: Dark Roots: Stories
Casa editrice: Grove Press, Black Cat
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket