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The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac
Louise Kennedy
其他書名
Stories
出版Penguin Group, 2024-12-03
主題Fiction / World Literature / Ireland / GeneralFiction / Short Stories (single author)Fiction / Small Town & Rural
ISBN059354093X9780593540930
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=l-4jEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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).