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The end of the world is a cul de sac / Louise Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2023Edition: First United States editionDescription: 289 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593540923
  • 0593540921
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The end of the world is a cul de sac -- In silhouette -- Hunter-gatherers -- Wolf Point -- Belldonna -- Imbolic -- Beyond Carthage -- What the birds heard -- Gibralter -- Powder -- Hands -- Once upon a pair of wheels -- Brittle things -- Sparing the heather -- Garland Sunday.
Summary: "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 deprivation--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. 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)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction New KENNEDY, LOUISE Checked out 05/15/2024 33111011221682
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 ).

First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2021.

The end of the world is a cul de sac -- In silhouette -- Hunter-gatherers -- Wolf Point -- Belldonna -- Imbolic -- Beyond Carthage -- What the birds heard -- Gibralter -- Powder -- Hands -- Once upon a pair of wheels -- Brittle things -- Sparing the heather -- Garland Sunday.

"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 deprivation--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. 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)"-- Provided by publisher.

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