The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac Stories
eBook - 2023
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 marri...age. Plumbing the depths of intimacy, violence, and redemption, these stories are “dazzling, heartbreaking . . . keen to share the lessons of a lifetime”...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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- English
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- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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ASIN | B0BXKGHRDQ |
Release Date | 12/5/2023 |
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ISBN | 9780593540947 |
Release Date | 12/5/2023 |