Here Until August
β Scribed by Josephine Rowe
- Book ID
- 100608149
- Publisher
- Catapult
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1948226073
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**
"Here Until August tracks the shimmer of precarious moments and transient moods with devastating precision. In their steady excavation of intimacy, these spacious stories bring Alice Munro to mind. I underlined sentence after sentence as I read: for their beauty, their clarity, and their wisdom. Josephine Rowe is a breathtakingly good writer, and this is a marvelous book." --Michelle de Kretser**
The stories in Here Until August follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are traveling beyond the boundaries of their known worlds. These are people who move with the seasons. We meet them negotiating reluctant or cowardly departures, navigating uncertain returns, or biding the disquieting calm that so often precedes moments of decisive action.
In one story, an agoraphobic French Γ©migrΓ© compulsively watches disturbing footage from the other side of the world as she attempts to keep a dog named Chavez out of trouble. In another, a...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
After getting their hearts broken, will this couple give love a second chance? After a failed marriage Melanie Campbell quit a career she loved, friends she shared with her husband and her social life. She spent three years burying herself in her job avoiding living her life until one evening her b
**After getting their hearts broken, will this couple give love a second chance?** After a failed marriage Melanie Campbell quit a career she loved, friends she shared with her husband and her social life. She spent three years burying herself in her job avoiding living her life until one evening h
**A *TIME* MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK β’Β The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prizeβwinning author of *Love in the Time of Cholera* and *One Hundred Years of Solitude*βa moving tale of female desire and abandon** Β Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena