Author

Publication

2009 - Jonathan Cape, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

64,250 words, Guess

Page Count

257 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC823.914
  • LCCPR6062.A735 I87 2009
  • LCCPR6062.A735

Description

The stories in this collection expose the hidden desires and fears of the characters, exposing their self-delusions, images of themselves and their habits. There are bankers, furniture dealers, a self-employed forester, a former-hippie divorcée, an astronomer coping with academic redundancy, an assistant in a jewellery store, a womanising Scottish photographer, and a surgeon who bullies his younger son. These characters have briefly sketched pasts and family ties, memories of exile in Tomsk or long-gone friendships. They appear in upstate New York and Manhattan, the Sussex countryside and suburban north London, and among the mountains of Albania and France.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • It's beginning to hurtJonathan Cape2009-01-01

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