Sunstroke and Other Stories (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Sunstroke and Other Stories A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities. This title includes these stories about family life that are somehow undomesticated.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 03 January 2008
- Format: Paperback 160 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780099499251 ISBN 10: 0099499258
- Sales rank: 299,081
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Full description for Sunstroke and Other Stories
Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.
