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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Certain People
Verlag:
Coffee House Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36916028
EAN: 9781566890526
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Zustellung: Mo, 02.11.2026
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Beschreibung
Roberta Allen presents characters who are never at home in the world, who find in their surroundings “the strangeness” they feel inside themselves. The thirty-three stories in Certain People. are set in Australia and other exotic locales. The first story, “House Hunting,” tells of a successful gentleman who is having a life crisis. His lover has left him for a cook. “The man whose lover left him for a cook” reappears throughout the book, his life slowly crumbling as he recognizes his inability to connect with himself and others. In “The Whore,” a young, beautiful wife is ignored by her husband, who is enthralled by the life stories of a middle-aged prostitute. Written in a tactile and painterly manner, the author questions the way we perceive our world and self. In these stories, the world is a place of shifting relations where truths are relative. What one person sees is not the same as another. One’s perceptions may change in a flash or not at all. One may cling to people or things long out of sight.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Roberta Allen
Erscheinungsjahr
- 1996
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 128