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Memories of mother bleed into the history of the narrator's own disastrous affair, and, as the details pile up in phantasmagoric prose, it becomes increasingly probable that the man to whom she surrenders her body and her will is the same man her mother loved--her father. The Keepsake is a disturbing novel, a garden of perversions made weirdly compelling by the author's unheated approach.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 213 pages. Cover worn. Returning again and again in dream and imagination to the closed rooms of childhood, a daughter gradual ly comes to an understanding of the terrible intimacy of families . Raised on her mother's dreams and stories of happiness with a f ather she never knew, she relives her mother's story. Seller Inventory # 1389i
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 213 pages. Returning again and again in dream and imagination to the closed rooms of childhood, a daughter gradually comes to an understanding of the terrible intimacy of families. Raised on her mother's dreams and stories of happiness with a father she ne ver knew, she relives her mother's story. Seller Inventory # 2484t
Book Description Condition: Good. En ung kvinde mister sin mor p grund af stofmisbrug. Pr'get af sin mors endel?se romantiske historier om en forsvunden 'gtef'lle, kommer hun til at gentage moderens m?nster og finder derved sin egen historie og den sandhed, moderen ikke turde fort'lle. 224 pages. Seller Inventory # 1003936
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. In hypnotic and mesmerizing language, Kirsty Gunn explores the dark world of a young girl who has grown up with a mother dependent on storytelling and the oblivion of addiction to cope with the memory of lost love, the girl's father. Raised on deceptive tales of happiness, the younger woman is drawn into and begins to relive the real story of pain, abandonment, and the tyranny of desire. As her life spirals out of control, the tangled yarn of her mother's past begins to unravel, until finally she can come to tell a story that is her own. This luminous and disturbing novel reveals the terrible intimacy of family love and the redemptive power of storytelling. Fiction 224 pages. Seller Inventory # 1413165