- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: House of Anansi Press (Nov 29 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0887847382
- ISBN-13: 978-0887847387
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #240,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A virtuoso of prose. Her phrasing is fine-tuned and supple to the highest degree: intuitive and subtle about the multifarious sensations of being alive. -- London Review of Books
Kennedy is as disconcertinly accurate at tenderness as at wildness...A passionate writer, on the edge and at risk. -- New York Times Book Review
Kennedy's lovers represent bad habits, addictions impossible to shake, a shared knowledge of entrapment -- both disease and cure. -- Books in Canada
This woman is a profound writer. -- Richard Ford
[Kennedy] painstakingly excavates her characters to uncover their reasons for living, their reasons for going on in a world where going on often makes no sense. -- Zsuzsi Gartner, Globe and Mail --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Kennedy is as disconcertinly accurate at tenderness as at wildness...A passionate writer, on the edge and at risk. -- New York Times Book Review
Kennedy's lovers represent bad habits, addictions impossible to shake, a shared knowledge of entrapment -- both disease and cure. -- Books in Canada
This woman is a profound writer. -- Richard Ford
[Kennedy] painstakingly excavates her characters to uncover their reasons for living, their reasons for going on in a world where going on often makes no sense. -- Zsuzsi Gartner, Globe and Mail --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Hannah Luckraft knows of paradise. It's hidden in the peace of open country, it's sweet on her lover's skin, it flavours every drink she's ever taken, but it never seems to stay. Almost 40 and with nothing to show for it, even Hannah is noticing that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her and it seems that her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are frankly odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can understand, but he may be one more symptom of the problem she must cure. From the northeast of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest, British Columbia, and onwards, Hannah travels beyond her limits, beyond herself, in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy — her paradise. Balancing the grim with the hilarious, the tender with the shocking, A. L. Kennedy has written an emotional and visceral tour de force.
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