The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac : Stories

✍ Scribed by Louise Kennedy

• Book ID: 112091281
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 540 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593540923

✦ Synopsis

Brilliant, dark stories of women 's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'** Connor, Irish Times)**
In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses , women's lives are etched by poverty--material, emotional, sexual--but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt.
A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate, with blood on her hands. An expectant mother's worst fears about her husband's entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is tormented by visions of the man her brother murdered during the Troubles. A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage. Plumbing the depths of intimacy, violence, and redemption, these stories are "dazzling, heartbreaking . . . keen to share the lessons of a lifetime"...