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Big kiss, bye-bye
Bennett, Claire-Louise2025
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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she's left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept. An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she's loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self. The ephemera left by their passage - a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss - make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. In this novel a woman confronts the unquenchable half-life of passion.
Main title:
Big kiss, bye-bye / Claire-Louise Bennett.
Author:
Bennett, Claire-Louise, author
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025.
Collation:
168 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781804271933 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
8998778
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