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Things to Come and Go
Engelsk Paperback
Things to Come and Go
Engelsk Paperback

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‘Reminiscent of Edna O’Brien, with shades too of Jean Rhys.’ – The Irish Times

Things to Come and Go showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning power, beauty, and sustaining humour.

‘Birds of a Feather’ is a daughter’s story of her extended, first-generation family, the ‘big, brassy yak-yakking Abarbanels’. Esti, a merciless, astute observer, recalls growing up amid (the confusions and difficulties of) their history, quarrels, judgements, noisy love and inescapable bonds of blood.

In ‘The Old Wheeze’ a single mother in her twenties returns to her sunless apartment after a date at the ballet. Shifting between four viewpoints – the young woman, the older professor who took her out, her son, and her son’s babysitter – the story masterfully captures the impossibility of liberating ourselves from the self.

In ‘The Life You Gave Me’, a woman at the midpoint of life is called to her father’s sickbed. A lament for all that is forever unsaid and unsayable, the story is ‘an anguished meditation on growing up, growing old and being left behind, a complaint against time.’ (The New York Times)

First published in 1984, Things to Come and Go, Bette Howland’s final book, is a collection of haunting urgency about arrivals and departures, and the private, insoluble dramas in the lives of three women.

With an introduction by Rumaan Alam, bestselling author of Leave the World Behind.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
160
ISBN-13:
9781529035926
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1529035929
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 jul 2023
Længde:
10mm
Bredde:
132mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
27 jul 2023
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