The end of the world is a cul de sac : stories
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.
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Women > Fiction. Short stories, Irish. Short stories. |
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Short stories. |
- ISBN: 9780593540923 (hardcover)
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Physical Description
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289 pages ; 22 cm - Edition First United States edition.
- Publisher 2023
- Copyright ©2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | First published in 2021. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The end of the world is a cul de sac -- In silhouette -- Hunter-gatherers -- Wolf Point -- Belladonna -- Imbolc -- Beyond Carthage -- What the birds heard -- Gibraltar -- Powder -- Hands -- Once upon a pair of wheels -- Brittle things -- Sparing the heather -- Garland Sunday. |