Sunstroke and Other Stories
Author: Hadley, Tessa
ISBN: 9780099499251
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley's first collection of short stories now rejacketed for a whole new audience
Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach.
Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.
ISBN: 9780099499251
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley's first collection of short stories now rejacketed for a whole new audience
Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach.
Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.
