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Original Bliss (Paperback)
$11.42 - Save $1.59 (12%) - RRP $13.01 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Original BlissKennedy tells the story of an unlikely courtship between an emotionally paralyzed woman and a self-despising man who find in each other a way to break out of their isolation.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books USA
- Published: 25 January 2000
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780375702785 ISBN 10: 0375702784
- Sales rank: 484,693
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Full description for Original Bliss
"Kennedy is a world class writer."--"The New York Times Book Review" A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists. Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and the importance of "interior lives." Edward G. Gluck, she discovers has developed a program that guides lost souls toward contentment. Helen seeks him out, hoping to find an answer. Instead she discovers Gluck's own sadomasochistic obsession, and his profound shame and disgust. And what they both encounter, painfully, is the love each fears and both yearn to embrace. "A darkly comic tale.... [that] is hilariously funny about sexual obsession and brilliantly perceptive about the dynamics of human relationships."--"The Baltimore Sun"
