The Keepsake
1st Grove Press Pbk. Ed edition
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100802135595
- ISBN-139780802135599
- Goodreads218203
- LibraryThing45125
- OCLC Control Number38956970
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780802135599
- Open LibraryOL7874745M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3557.U4864 K44 1997
Description
Through a shifting and interwoven narrative, Kirsty Gunn explores the dark world of a young girl who has grown up with a mother dependent on storytelling and the oblivion of addiction to cope with the memory of her lost love, the girl's father. Raised on these deceptive tales of happiness, the younger woman is drawn into and begins to relive the real story of pain, abandonment, and the tyranny of desire. Her shocking affair with an older man seems to repeat the pattern set by her mother. The tangled yarn of her mother's past begins to be unraveled by the younger woman - until finally she can come to tell a story that is her own.
First Sentence
The window, made of figured glass, gleamed.
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