Going Away and Other Stories
From being at the sharp end of an angry woman's cold, calculated revenge to suffering the miserable consequences of losing everything including a priceless Picasso; from paying the ultimate price for having so much as considered adultery to being fatally drawn to the pungent yet deadly smell of an exotic flower, the situations in which the main protagonists find themselves in this compelling collection of short stories all have an air of finality about them. Some are looking for a way in to an inheritance, to a relationship with a mysterious stranger who turns up out of the blue, or to an understanding of the tantalising story recounted in a handwritten notebook while others are permanently bowing out, disappearing off the face of the earth or finding that their existence has drawn to an end gracefully or otherwise. Their world is one of uncertainty and surprise, where the mundane somehow always ends up being anything but...
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Going Away and Other Stories
From being at the sharp end of an angry woman's cold, calculated revenge to suffering the miserable consequences of losing everything including a priceless Picasso; from paying the ultimate price for having so much as considered adultery to being fatally drawn to the pungent yet deadly smell of an exotic flower, the situations in which the main protagonists find themselves in this compelling collection of short stories all have an air of finality about them. Some are looking for a way in to an inheritance, to a relationship with a mysterious stranger who turns up out of the blue, or to an understanding of the tantalising story recounted in a handwritten notebook while others are permanently bowing out, disappearing off the face of the earth or finding that their existence has drawn to an end gracefully or otherwise. Their world is one of uncertainty and surprise, where the mundane somehow always ends up being anything but...
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940157939687 |
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| Publisher: | The Book Guild Ltd |
| Publication date: | 01/29/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 714 KB |
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