
Dark Roots
Stories
Cate Kennedy(Author)
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Will be published approx. on 6. March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-8021-7045-3 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of prize-winning stories by The New Yorker?debuted Australian that is ?by turns funny, wise, and achingly sad" (Stephanie Bishop, Sydney Morning Herald). Australian Cate Kennedy delivers a mesmerizing story collection that travels to the deepest depths of the human psyche. In these sublimely sophisticated and compulsively readable tales, Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail to explore the collision between simmering inner lives and the cold outside world. Her stories are populated by people on the brink: a woman floundering with her own loss and emotional immobility as her lover lies in a coma; a neglected wife who cannot convince her husband of the truth about his two shamelessly libidinous friends; or a married woman realizes that her too-tight wedding ring isn't the only thing that's stuck in her relationship. Each character must make a choice and none is without consequence?even the smallest decisions have the power to destroy or renew, to recover and relinquish. Devastating, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots deftly unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures and the coincidences that drive our lives. This arresting collection introduces a new master of the short story.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-7045-3 (9780802170453)
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