Objects of Desire (häftad, eng)

<p><b>'Sestanovich’s elegant prose takes seriously the quiet unrest that can ravage a life' - Raven Leilani, author of <i>Luster</i></b><br><b>A Best Book of the Summer in <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>,<i>Vogue</i>, <i>Esquire </i>and </b><i><b>Refinery29</b></i><br><br>A university student is flying home to visit her family when she strikes up an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane.

A mother prepares for her son's wedding, her own life unravelling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother's visit prompts a family's reckoning with its old taboos.<br><br>In these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women’s lives – from the brink of adulthood, to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly lapse.

Tender, lucid and piercingly funny, <i>Objects of Desire </i>is a collection pulsing with subtle drama, rich with unforgettable scenes, and alive with moments of recognition, each more startling than the last - a spellbinding debut that announces a major talent.<br><br><b>'A debut story collection of the rarest kind .

. . you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel.' — <i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>Clare Sestanovich named one of The National Book Foundation's '5 under 35'.</b></p>

Format	Häftad
Omfång	224 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Pan Macmillan
Utgivningsdatum	2022-07-21
ISBN	9781529053586