Love is Strange
$21.79
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2013
Summary
In the kitchen, Gillian loads the Hotpoint and frets about letting her baby go.
In the bathroom, Clifford styles his hair like Cliff’s and wishes for a television.
In the front room, Arthur smokes a pipe and plots to fend off the loan sharks.
In her bedroom, Annette lifts up her nightie and heads for Clifford’s room.
In a tour-de-force of undressed taboo, four monologues intertwine to begin the story of an ordinary family in the fifties. How their seemingly con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782066972 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782066977 |
| Author: | Joseph Connolly |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 32mm |
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‘A tragedy of embarrassment, where every detail is comic’ Adam Mars-Jones, Observer.
‘An exciting and powerful novel’ Beryl Bainbridge. * Beryl Bainbridge *
‘A melodramatic morality tale, exposing the decay beneath the comfortable respectability of a family’s life … it sends nostalgic chintz down in gleeful, satanic flames’ Melissa McClements, Financial Times. * Financial Times *
‘A tragedy of embarrassment, where every detail is comic’ Adam Mars-Jones, Observer. * Observer *
About The Author
Joseph Connolly
Joseph Connolly is the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling writer of eleven novels, as well as eleven works of non-fiction. He lives in London.
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