After the Funeral: Stories ~ UK SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
by Hadley, Tessa
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 178733368X
- ISBN 13
- 9781787333680
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FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by the author directly to the full title page. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. NOT inscribed to anyone. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships — Tessa Hadley is "one of the greatest stylists alive" (Ron Charles, Washington Post).
"Like Alice Munro, to whom she has more than once been compared, Hadley . . . sees us all: our travails, our fantasies and our small joys."—Claire Messud, New York Times best-selling author of The Burning Girl
"Hadley is pure magic and After the Funeral is a triumph."—Lily King, New York Times best-selling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria
In each of these twelve stories, small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was alittle girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross paths at a posh hotel and pretend not to recognize each other. Janie's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janie's own age—everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Cecilia, a teenager, wakes one morning in Florence on vacation with her parents and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes.
As psychologically astute as they are emotionally rich, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams. A vital addition to Tessa Hadley's celebrated body of work, After the Funeral and Other Stories showcases what Colm Tóibín describes as "Tessa Hadley's extraordinary skill at making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive."
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- Books On The Boulevard (US)
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- 778
- Title
- After the Funeral: Stories ~ UK SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Hadley, Tessa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 178733368X
- ISBN 13
- 9781787333680
- Publisher
- Penguin/Random House UK
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- signed; collectible; autographed, novel, short stories, relationships, british authors, booker prize
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