Description
| Product ID: | 9781529053586 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Objects of Desire |
| Authors: | Author: Clare Sestanovich |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories, USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Eleven stories of sly and disarming power, about womanhood and families – an astonishing debut by a young New Yorker editor and bold new literary voice. <p><b>'Sestanovich’s elegant prose takes seriously the quiet unrest that can ravage a life' - Raven Leilani, author of <i>Luster</i></b><br><b>A Best Book of the Summer in <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>,<i>Vogue</i>, <i>Esquire </i>and </b><i><b>Refinery29</b></i><br><br>A university student is flying home to visit her family when she strikes up an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son's wedding, her own life unravelling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother's visit prompts a family's reckoning with its old taboos.<br><br>In these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women’s lives – from the brink of adulthood, to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly lapse. Tender, lucid and piercingly funny, <i>Objects of Desire </i>is a collection pulsing with subtle drama, rich with unforgettable scenes, and alive with moments of recognition, each more startling than the last - a spellbinding debut that announces a major talent.<br><br><b>'A debut story collection of the rarest kind . . . you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel.' — <i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br><b>Clare Sestanovich named one of The National Book Foundation's '5 under 35'.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-21 |
