Why the Tree Loves the Axe

Lewis, Jim

ISBN 10: 0002256991 / ISBN 13: 9780002256995

Editore: FLAMINGO, 1998

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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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• Titolo: Why the Tree Loves the Axe
• Editore: FLAMINGO
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0002256991
• ISBN 13: 9780002256995
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

The brilliant second novel by a new US literary star.

• Caroline, 27, walks out of a marriage and into an old people’s home where she meets cantankerous, lusty octogenarian Billy, who entrusts a secret to her. She goes from his deathbed to a wedding, where she is seduced by a beautiful man who tells her stories of her ex’s antics back home. Bright, buoyant Bonnie, meanwhile, installs herself as Caroline’s new best friend and accompanies her to a picnic that turns into a riot. When it is over, the world’s altered: for Caroline is no longer herself – she must flee being Caroline. We follow her long flight through trauma, fakery and captivity to redemption.
• Jim Lewis’s tale of how to measure love and its loss is a swooningly observant and atmospheric tale of rare resonance.
• Lewis writes about sex, ageing, identity and bereavement with such newness and rightness that his reader is struck dumb.
• Sister, Jim Lewis’s debut, was rightly celebrated; but Why the Tree Loves the Axe betters it and brings him briskly to the very front of the American literary stage.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jim Lewis is the author of two previous books, a novel Sister, and in collaboration with photographer Jack Pierson, a book about Las Vegas, Real Gone.