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What Becomes (Hardback)
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Short Description for What BecomesA collection of short stories that shows readers exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. It reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, and also the redemption of love.
Full description- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Published: 06 August 2009
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780224077873 ISBN 10: 0224077872
- Sales rank: 392,090
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Full description for What Becomes
Always attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility - each story a dramatisation of the instant in a life that exposes it all: love and the lack of love, hope and the lack of hope. These men and women are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger. They conceal tenderness and disappointment, vulnerability and longing, griefs and wonders - and, with each of them, Kennedy finds and opens up that extraordinary emotional wound, that insight into their experiences: like the woman in "Saturday Teatime" who tries to relax in a flotation tank, before her memories hijack her, taking her back to last weekend's party - to a boy with a hamster, and his lecherous father - and then further back to another Saturday, when she was nine years old, when the troubling of her life began. A.L. Kennedy's fifth remarkable collection of short stories shows us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption of love - and she does so with the enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and the brilliantly original linguistic skill that distinguishes her as one of Britain's finest writers.
