Tom is Dead
$29.38
- Paperback
170 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2009
Summary
Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator’s son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time since that day, she spends a few minutes without thinking of him. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom’s story, the story of his death.
She writes about the first hours, the first days, and then about the hours and the days before. She strives to describe it all as precisely as possi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921520310 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921520310 |
| Author: | Marie Darrieussecq |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 170 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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‘The internationally celebrated author who illuminates those parts of life other writers cannot or do not want to reach.’
‘Tom Is Dead is powerful; when one has finished reading it one feels it absolutely needed to exist.’ * Nancy Huston *
‘The internationally celebrated author who illuminates those parts of life other writers cannot or do not want to reach.’ * Independent on Sunday *
‘There are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them.’ * The Times *
About The Author
Marie Darrieussecq
Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has published more than twenty books and been awarded numerous prizes.
Text has published:
- Tom Is Dead
- All the Way
- Men
- Being Here—The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
- Our Life in the Forest
- The Baby
- Crossed Lines
- Sleepless
- How to Make a Woman
Darrieussecq has written art criticism and journalism, is a translator from English, and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.
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